Henry Mossop (1729 â€" 18 November 1773) was an Irish actor.He was
born in Dunmore, County Galway, where his father was a clergyman. He
made his first stage appearance as Zanga in Young's tragedy The
Revenge at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin in 1749.Mossop's first
London appearance was made in 1751 under Garrick's management as
Richard III. He returned to Ireland in 1759 and added to his laurels.
Then he attempted management on his own account. He took over the
Smock Alley theatre in 1760 and entered into intense rivalry with the
Crow Street Theatre, run by Spranger Barry, which involved both houses
in financial difficulties. When he went to London in 1771 to recruit
actors he was arrested for debt and made a bankrupt. He toured the
continent for a year in an effort to acquire funds but his health
broke down and he died in poverty on 18 November 1773 (another
account, in the Gentleman's Magazine, gives his date of death as
December 1774).This article incorporates text from a publication now
in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mossop, Henry".
Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
p. 903.
born in Dunmore, County Galway, where his father was a clergyman. He
made his first stage appearance as Zanga in Young's tragedy The
Revenge at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin in 1749.Mossop's first
London appearance was made in 1751 under Garrick's management as
Richard III. He returned to Ireland in 1759 and added to his laurels.
Then he attempted management on his own account. He took over the
Smock Alley theatre in 1760 and entered into intense rivalry with the
Crow Street Theatre, run by Spranger Barry, which involved both houses
in financial difficulties. When he went to London in 1771 to recruit
actors he was arrested for debt and made a bankrupt. He toured the
continent for a year in an effort to acquire funds but his health
broke down and he died in poverty on 18 November 1773 (another
account, in the Gentleman's Magazine, gives his date of death as
December 1774).This article incorporates text from a publication now
in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mossop, Henry".
Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
p. 903.
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