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Edward Shuter (c. 1728–1776) was an English actor.




Life


Shuter was born in London to poor parents.
He made his first appearance on the London stage in 1745 in Cibber's Schoolboy.
He made a great reputation in old men's parts.
He was the original Justice Woodcock in Love in a Village (1762), Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (1773), and Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals (1775).
He was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden.




Portraits


His portrait as Scapin is in the Mathews collection in the Garrick Club; another portrait by Zoffany was engraved by Finlayson.




References



Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Shuter, Edward". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1024.
Knight, John Joseph (1897). "Shuter, Edward" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 172–174. ; Endnotes:
Genest's Account of the English Stage
Doran's Annals of the Stage, ed. Lowe
Davies's Dramatick Miscellanies
Clark Russell's Representative Actors
Dibdin's History of the Stage
Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, and Life of Mrs. Jordan
O'Keeffe's Recollections
Garrick Correspondence
Dramatic Mirror
Thespian Dict.
Georgian Era
The Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, Mr. Llwhuddwhydd, and others, the extraordinaries of these times. Collected from Zaphaniel's original papers, illustrated with copper-plates, London, 1743 [should be 1763], 12mo, a scarce work by G. A. Stevens, in imitation of Sterne's style, was aimed particularly at Shuter and Nancy Dawson; it was several times reprinted (Brit. Mus. Cat. 1785 and 1786).

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