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9 OVJ »V V»* ^ WV- (twu V V« ifAt » I/LUIv TT tw Clting son of the respectable musicseller of Manchester, and brother hie; of the partner of the house of Cramer and Co.Tiie Late John Richardson, the Show-mch M.AN*—That eccentric individual, John Richardson, who nted seven o’clock on Monday morning in a cottage he hadthe °PP°s^e ^he prison, Horsemonger-lane, has, we under-leal stant*» from very S00^ authority, left behind him upwards of jerl 20,000/. He was born in the workhouse of Marlow, Bucks, anJ but ran away from that place in order to seek his fortune ins{e. London. After various vicissitudes he became the landlordbuJ of the Harlequin public-house, in I)rury-lane, where he ame 8avet* some *u°neyi which he embarked inciting up a porta-.the ble theatre, and was known for forty years as the “ Prince ofre a Showmen,” and used frequently to boast that Edmund Kean,ince an^ 8evera^ °^her eminent actors, were brought out by him. ■xe(j About twenty years since, at the time of the St. Albans B jn Fair, the Fleur de Luce public-house caught fire, and several ?red acU.acen£ buildings were destroyed. A subscription for the hich re“ef £be sufferers was entered into, and Richardson ira-J(Xj_ mediately sent 100/. anonymously. The corporation, how-^ ever, much to his annoyance, discovered the donor, and he j^lJ acknowledged that it was the gift of “ Jack Richardson, but p^nny showman.” He afterwards gave two handsome donations, one towards the repairs of the Town Hall, and the other in aid of the funds raised towards renovating the til* ancient Abbey of St. Albans. His property, after various Der- le£ac*es to the itinerant company which had attended him for |jerI many years, descends to two nephews and a niece, and he de-are s,:res’ ^ will, to be buried in Marlow churchyard, in the t^e same grave a? his favourite spotted boy,” a lad who food twenty years since was exhibited by him, and attractedla- gre.at li0t‘ce in conseauence of the extraordinary manner in who Jie was marked on various parts of his body. A fewhen 'ea,rs smce tlie slt;»nery, dresses, and decorations of Richard-Duld 99n s theatre were exposed for auction by Mr. George Ro-• r bins, and c2,000/. were bid for them. They were bought in;bout the 4i old man,” as he was technically denominated, consi-siye dering them to be worth at least 3*000£At Spanish Luxuries.-—A private letter fromT/pn Till ran0*0* the head-nnartor: «f I^nn Poi.Jrve “ T ar,-.
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London Weekly Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Nov 20, 1836
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