Richard Daly

Life
?-1813; Master of Revels and mgr. of Smock Alley and Crow St, c. 1790; see Daly, Richard, An Answer to the Memoirs of Mrs. Billington. With the life and adventures of Richard Daly, Esq., and an account of the present state of the Irish Theatre. (London 1792), cited in Clark, Early Irish Stage, p. 211. DNB

 

Notes
Dictionary of National Biography, actor, d. 1813; ed. TCD; opened Smock Alley 1781; proprietor Crow St. and patentee, 1786; obtained decision against Magee, 1790; surrendered claim to Royal Theatre, 1797, and pensioned, 1798.

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