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Henry
Irving
was born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset in 1838. He worked as a clerk
in London for a while but in 1856 made
his first appearance on the stage at the Sunderland
Theatre.
Irving acted in Edinburgh (1857-1860),
Manchester (1860-1865) and Liverpool
(1865) before making his debut on the London stage in 1866. In performances
of Hamlet (1874), Macbeth
(1875) and Othello (1876) gained
the reputation as the greatest English actor of his time.
In 1878 he formed a partnership with Ellen Terry
at the Lyceum, where he became actor-manager. Their successes together
including Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare's
Hamlet. In 1895 Irving became
the first actor in British history to receive a knighthood. Sir Henry
Irving died in 1905.
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