# Napier Lothian Jr.

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{{Short description|American theatre manager, talent manager, actor and theatre director}}
'''Napier Lothian Jr.''' (1855 – January 3, 1903) was an American [theatre manager](/source/theatre_manager), [talent manager](/source/talent_manager), actor, and theatre director.<ref name="obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/01/04/archives/napier-lothian-jr-dead-veteran-theatrical-manager-expires-suddenly.html|title=NAPIER LOTHIAN, JR., DEAD.; Veteran Theatrical Manager Expires Suddenly of Appoplexy in Boston|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=4 January 1903 }}</ref> He should not be confused with his father, the actor, conductor, [flageolet](/source/flageolet)ist, and violinist  [Napier Lothian Sr.](/source/Napier_Lothian_Sr.) (1836–1916).<ref name="Incidental">{{cite book|title=Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 Volume 3, Biographical and Critical Commentary – Alphabetical Listings from Edgar Stillman Kelley to Charles Zimmerman|author=John Franceschina|publisher=Bear Manor Media|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4tEDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Napier+Lothian%22&pg=PT96|chapter=Lothian, Napier|year=2018}}</ref>

==Life and career==
Born in San Francisco, California in 1855,<ref name="obit"/> Napier Lothian Jr. was the son of Napier Lothian Sr.; an unsuccessful [gold miner](/source/gold_miner) who had participated in the [California Gold Rush](/source/California_Gold_Rush).<ref name="Incidental"/> His mother was the British dancer Clara Chapman Rivers who married his father in San Francisco.<ref name="Incidental"/> In 1856 Lothian Sr. became an actor in the San Francisco Minstrels.<ref name="Incidental"/> In 1859 both of Lothian Jr.'s parents were engaged in [Christy's Minstrels](/source/Christy's_Minstrels), and the family traveled with that company to New York City where Lothian Sr. became a celebrated flageoletist on the New York stage.<ref name="Incidental"/> 

In 1862, the entire Lothian family, including the seven-year old Lothian Jr., were engaged by the Morris Brothers minstrels from Boston.<ref name="obit"/> The family moved from New York City to Boston upon taking this engagement.<ref name="Incidental"/> Lothian Jr. made his professional stage debut at [Ordway Hall](/source/Ordway_Hall_(Boston)) (then known as the Morris Brothers Opera House) in May 1862 and continued to be active on the stage throughout his youth.<ref name="obit"/> His father went on to have a highly successful career as a music director in Boston and Broadway at several theaters, including posts at [The Boston Theatre](/source/The_Boston_Theatre) and [Niblo's Garden](/source/Niblo's_Garden).<ref name="Incidental"/>

As an adult, Lothian Jr. became a successful theatre manager, theatre director, and talent manager. He served posts as the manager of two theatre's in Boston: the Continental Theatre and The Boston Theatre;<ref name="obit"/> serving at the latter theatre while his father was music director for over two decades.<ref name="Incidental"/> For several years he was the manager of the touring acting troupe, the Quincy Adams Sawyer Company. As a talent manager, he managed the careers of actresses [Mary Anderson](/source/Mary_Anderson_(actress%2C_born_1859)), [Julia Arthur](/source/Julia_Arthur), and [Henrietta Crosman](/source/Henrietta_Crosman).<ref name="obit"/> In 1895 he directed ''[The Wizard of the Nile](/source/The_Wizard_of_the_Nile)'' at [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre)'s [Casino Theatre](/source/Earl_Carroll_Theatre).<ref>{{cite book|author=Ken Wlaschin|title=Encyclopedia of American Opera|date=24 September 2009|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|isbn=978-0-7864-4596-7|page=428}}</ref>

He died in [Boston](/source/Boston), Massachusetts on January 3, 1903;<ref name="obit"/> thirteen years before the death of his father.<ref name="Incidental"/> 
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