English actor, first a scene painter, then acted in the provinces, and appeared in London in 1695 at Drury Lane after Bettertons defection. He was the original Captain Driver in Oronooko (1696), Captain Fireball in Farquhars Sir Harry Wildair (1701), Sable in Steeles Funeral (1702), &c.; as the First Gravedigger in Hamlet and in several characters in the plays of Ben Jonson he was particularly good. He succeeded, also, to Thomas Doggetts rôles.