William Havard (actor)

William Havard (1710?–1778), was a British actor and dramatist.

Havard appeared at Goodman's Fields Theatre, 1730–1737, and then at the Drury Lane Theatre until retirement in 1769. He generally played secondary parts; depreciated in Rosciad. He also appeared in his own plays, King Charles I at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1737; Regulus Drury Lane, 1744; and The Elopement Drury Lane, 1763.[1]

Selected roles

• Montesini in The Parricide (1736)
• Rosebrand in The Independent Patriot (1737)
• Talthybius in Agamemnon (1738)
• Hartly in The Coffee House (1738)
• Achmet in Mustapha (1739)
• Young Freeman in Love the Cause and Cure of Grief (1743)
• Decius in Regulus (1744)
• Young Whimsey in The Astrologer (1744)
• Rodolpho in Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)
• Bellamy in The Suspicious Husband (1747)
• Colonel Raymond in The Foundling (1748)
• Abdalla, An Officer in Irene (1749)
• Arnold in Edward the Black Prince (1750)
• Amphares in Agis (1758)
• Timurkan in The Orphan of China (1759)
• Megistus in Zenobia (1768)

Notes

1. Lee 1903, p. 585.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Havard, William". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 585.

Further reading

• Knight, John Joseph (1891). "Havard, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. 25. pp. 172–173.