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ROSS, DAVID, son of Alexander Ross, Gray’s Inn, London, previously Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh; b. 1 May 1728; adm. Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); Min. Can. 1743; left 1743; went on the stage; actor at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 1749-51, Drury Lane 1754-6, Covent Garden 1757-67; patentee and manager of the theatre at Edinburgh, which he opened 9 Dec 1767 with the play The Earl of Essex, the first play legally performed in Scotland; reappeared at Covent Garden 10 Oct 1770; made his last appearance in the season 1777-8; his best parts as an actor were Castalio, Essex, Young Knowell, and George Barnwell; a close friend of James Boswell, who was chief mourner at his funeral (Letters of Boswell to Temple, 273); said to have married the celebrated Fanny Murray (John Taylor, Records of My Life, 1832, i, 362-6); d. 15 Sep 1790. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.