Irish actor, born at Westmeath on the 11th of April 1853 and was educated for the army. He first appeared on the stage in Liverpool in 1870. On May 2, 1874 he played John Fern in Progress at the St. James’s theatre, London. He played the principal part in Henry Arthur Jones’s The Masqueraders in 1894, and appeared in Pinero’s The Benefit of the Doubt in 1895. In 1902 he made a success with Miss Marie Tempest in The Marriage of Kitty (the English version of de Grésac and de Croissel’s La Passerelle), and he toured with this play in America. Later he played Conan Doyle’s Raffles in the English provinces. He died in London on the 17th of April 1920.
