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WEMYSS, Francis Courtney, theatrical manager, born in London, 13 May, 1797; died in New York city, 5 January, 1859. He appeared at the Adelphi, London, in April, 1821, and at the Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia, in December, 1822, as Vapid in " The Dramatist," and afterward in the principal cities of the United States. He was subsequently for many years a manager of theatres in Washington, Wheeling, Virginia, Wilmington, Delaware, Baltimore, Pittsburg, and Philadelphia. He was one of the founders and a director of the American dramatic fund association of New York city, and its secretary from 1852 till his death. He was the author of '" Twenty-six Years as an Actor and Manager" (2 vols., New "York, 1847) ; "Chronology of the American Stage, 1752-1852" (1852); and "Theatrical Biography" (New York); and edited "The Minor Drama," to which he also contributed (7 vols., 1848-'52).
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