Mr. Weston as Dr. Last.
FOOTNOTES:
[101] Henry Carey hanged himself. I am not aware that his son committed suicide.
[102] "I was born in the year 1787, and if anybody asks you who was my mother, say Miss Tidswell, the actress; my father was the late Duke of Norfolk, whom they called Jockey. I am not the son of Moses Kean, the mimic, nor of his brother, as some people are pleased to assert, though I bear the same name. I had the honour of being brought up at Arundel Castle till I was seven years old, and there they sometimes, I do not know why, called me Duncan! After I quitted Arundel Castle, I was soon put upon the stage by my mother. The very first part in which I appeared was the Robber's Boy in the 'Iron Chest,' when it was originally brought out at Drury Lane in 1796.... I was at Arundel Castle a few years ago, and, as I showed to the people who had charge of it, I knew every room, passage, winding and turning in it. In one of the large apartments hung a portrait of the old Duke of Norfolk, and the man who was with me said, 'You are very like the old Duke, sir.' And well he might. I am his son!"
The above is said to have been taken down from Kean's words by a gentleman who showed it to Payne Collier. Kean named his first boy Howard, in support of the Norfolk legend.—Doran MS.
[103] Miss Tidswell gives the date as 17th March 1789; but there can be little doubt that 1787 is the correct year.
[104] In Notes and Queries, 4th series, iii. 535; Kean's real name is said to have been Carter.—Doran MS.
[105] At Stroud, in Gloucestershire, July 17, 1808. The bride and her sister Susan, witness, wrote their names Chambres.—Doran MS.
[106] 26th of January (second edition).
[107] Dyce called him "a pot-house Richard."—Doran MS.