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Life
?-1813; Master of Revels and mgr. of Smock Alley and Crow St, c. 1790; he was in receipt a Govt. annuity for self, wife and children, arising from a “memorial” entered by Frederick Jones, his successor to the Royal Theatre patent. ODNB
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Criticism
Richard Daly, An Answer to the Memoirs of Mrs. Billington. With the life and adventures of Richard Daly, Esq., and an account of the present state of the Irish Theatre. (London 1792), cited in Clark, Early Irish Stage, p. 211.
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References
Dictionary of National Biography, actor, d. 1813; ed. TCD; opened Smock Alley 1781; proprietor Crow St. and patentee, 1786; obtained decision against Magee, 1790; surrendered claim to Royal Theatre, 1797, and pensioned, 1798.
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Notes
See also annuity for Daly under Frederick Jones, infra.
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