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William Creswick
William Creswick (27 December 1813 – 17 June 1888) was an English actor. A popular tragedian on the London stage, he appeared with many leading actors of his day, including William Charles Macready, Edwin Booth and Fanny Kemble and was well known for his Shakespearean and melodrama roles in Britain, the U.S. and Australia.
==Early years==
Creswick was born near Covent Garden, London. He was intended for a mercantile career, but the death of his father when Creswick was 17 left him free to follow his theatrical vocation.〔Shaw, Robert Gould. (''Exhibition of prints and playbills to illustrate the history of the Boston stage, 1825-1850'' ), pp. 82–83, Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes (1915)〕
Under the name of "Master Collins" he appeared in 1831 at a theatre in the East End, playing an Italian boy in a drama on the subject of "burking" (murder with the motive of selling the victim's body to anatomists).〔''The Era'' obituary notice, 23 June 1888. p. 8〕 He appeared with travelling companies in Suffolk and Kent and then played leading roles in the north of England. There, in 1834, he met Elizabeth Page (1809–1876), whose stage name was Miss Paget, whom subsequently he married. His next appearance in London was at the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham Street on 16 February 1835, as Horace Meredith in Douglas William Jerrold's comedy, ''Schoolfellows.'' Returning to touring in York, he played the leading part in ''Ion'', continuing to tour in the provinces. In April 1839, he appeared at the Lyceum Theatre, London, first in ''Silver Crescent''.〔 In 1839 Creswick and his wife travelled to the U.S., staying for nearly four years, where Creswick greatly increased his reputation.〔 They began with engagements in New York and then joined the company of the Tremont Theatre in Boston for the season of 1840-41, afterwards touring throughout North America. Upon their return to England, Creswick resumed touring in the North.〔
On 25 July 1846 he joined Samuel Phelps's company at Sadler's Wells, playing Hotspur and other parts. At the Princess's Theatre in April 1847, he played Master Walter in ''The Hunchback'' to Fanny Kemble's Julia, and subsequently supported her in other roles.〔 At the same theatre he played with William Charles Macready, opposite whom his Shakespearean roles included Cassius, Macduff and Edgar.〔''Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper'', obituary notice, 24 June 1888, p. 5〕 Creswick was engaged for three years at the Haymarket Theatre, where he first appeared in July 1847 as Claude Melnotte to the Pauline of Helen Faucit in ''The Lady of Lyons'' by Edward Bulwer Lytton.〔 In October of that year he was the first Vivian Temple in Westland Marston's ''Heart and the World''. He was also seen as True-worth in ''The Love Chase'', Mordaunt in ''The Patrician's Daughter'', Proteus in ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (December 1848), the Ghost in ''Hamlet'', and Cassio in ''Othello''.〔
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