Alexander Pope (actor)

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Alexander Pope | honorific_suffix = | image = John Corner after Samuel de Wilde.Alexander Pope as Varanes in tragedy Theodosius by Nathaniel Lee.Engraving,printed ink on paper.7cm х 19cm.1793.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Alexander Pope as Varanes in tragedy Theodosius by Nathaniel Lee.1793 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = 1763 | birth_place = Cork, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1835|03|22|1763|df=yes}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = Actor | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = {{plainlist| * Elizabeth Younge, * Maria Ann Campion, * Clara Maria Leigh }} | awards =  | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website =  | module = }} '''Alexander Pope''' (1763{{snd}}22 March 1835) was an Irish actor and painter.

==Life== He was born in Cork, Ireland. He studied to follow his father's profession of miniature painting and continued to do so as late as 1821, exhibiting them at the Royal Academy. However, he first took the stage in 1785, appearing in London as Oroonoko at Covent Garden. He remained at this theatre almost continuously for nearly twenty years, then at the Haymarket until his retirement, playing leading parts, chiefly tragic. He was well known as Othello and Henry VIII.<ref name="eb"/>

He played for the first time in Edinburgh on 15 June 1786, as Othello.<ref>{{DNB|wstitle=Pope, Alexander (1763-1835)|volume=46|first=John Joseph|last= Knight}}</ref>

==Family== He was married three times. His first wife, Elizabeth Pope (1744–1797), a favourite English actress of great versatility, was billed before her marriage as Miss Younge.<ref>Terry Enright, ‘Pope, Elizabeth (1739x45–1797)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22530, accessed 21 March 2015]</ref> His second wife, Maria Ann Campion (1775–1803), also a popular actress, was a member of an Irish family.<ref name="eb">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Pope, Alexander (actor)|display=Pope, Alexander|volume=22|page=87}}</ref> His third wife, born Clara Maria Leigh (1768–1838), was the widow of the artist Francis Wheatley, and herself a skillful painter of figures and flowers, under the name of Mrs Pope.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Mary |last=Webster|title=Pope, Clara Maria (bap. 1767, d. 1838)|id= 22529}}</ref>

==Selected roles== * Preux in ''Eloisa'' by Frederick Reynolds (1786) * Haswell in ''Such Things Are'' by Elizabeth Inchbald (1787) * Lord Ormond in ''The Ton'' by Eglantine Wallace (1788) *Frederick in ''The School for Widows'' by Richard Cumberland (1789) * Columbus in ''Columbus'' by Thomas Morton (1792) * Sir Alexander Seaton in ''The Siege of Berwick'' by Edward Jerningham (1793) * Warford in ''How to Grow Rich'' by Frederick Reynolds (1793) * Mr Irwin in ''Everyone Has His Fault'' by Elizabeth Inchbald (1793) * Darnley in ''The Rage'' by Frederick Reynolds (1794) * Asgill in ''The Town Before You'' by Hannah Cowley (1794) * Baron St Pol in ''The Siege of Meaux'' by Henry James Pye (1794) * Mr Mordent in ''The Deserted Daughter'' by Thomas Holcroft (1795) * Earl of Pembroke in ''England Preserved'' by George Watson-Taylor (1795) * Captain Faulkener in ''The Way to Get Married'' by Thomas Morton (1796) * Voltimar in ''The Days of Yore'' by Richard Cumberland (1796) * Charles Stanley in ''A Cure for the Heart Ache'' by Thomas Morton (1797) * Sir George Evelyn in ''Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are'' by Elizabeth Inchbald (1797) * Mr Deleval in ''He's Much to Blame'' by Thomas Holcroft (1798) * Sir Philip Blandford in ''Speed the Plough'' by Thomas Morton (1798) * Greville in ''Secrets Worth Knowing'' by Thomas Morton (1798) * Frederick Fervid in ''Five Thousand a Year'' by Thomas Dibdin (1799) * Sir Hervey Sutherland in ''Management'' by Frederick Reynolds (1799) * Leonard Vizorly in ''The Votary of Wealth'' by Joseph George Holman (1799) * Albert, Lord of Thurn in ''Joanna of Montfaucon'' by Richard Cumberland (1800) * George Howard in ''The Marriage Promise'' by John Allingham (1803) * Dorland in ''Hearts of Oak'' by John Allingham (1803) * Captain Sentamour in ''The Sailor's Daughter'' by Richard Cumberland (1804) * Heartright in ''A Hint to Husbands'' by Richard Cumberland (1806) * Baron in ''Edgar'' by George Manners (1806) * Sir Arthur St Albyn in ''Begone Dull Care'' by Frederick Reynolds (1808) * Marquis Valdez in ''Remorse'' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1813) * St. Aldobrand in ''Bertram'' by Charles Maturin (1816) * Prince Aymer in ''The Hebrew'' by George Soane (1820) *Drusus in ''Caius Gracchus'' by James Sheridan Knowles (1823) * Clotaire in ''Ben Nazir'' by Thomas Colley Grattan (1827)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/POPE.pdf Neil Jeffares Dictionary of pastellists before 1800]

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