CodeDS/UK/4196
Dates?1742-1798
Person NamePalmer; John (?1742-1798)
SurnamePalmer
ForenamesJohn
ActivityActor. First appeared on the stage in 1762; seriously injured when the spring in a stage dagger failed; became a great favourite in Liverpool; built the Royalty Theatre, Wellclose Square, opened 1787 - this was opposed by other theatre managers and to this he ascribed the general collapse of his fortunes and his imprisonment for debt in 1789
RelationshipsHis father was a private soldier. Mar (?1764) Miss Berroughs, at Norwich
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