116 Sentences With "teazle" | Random Sentence Generator

Dobbs had one theory, Short another, and teazle still another.

The fact was, Dobbs was a greater blockhead than teazle, if that were possible.

Short and Dobbs never united for any other purpose but the abuse of teazle.

Will called teazle away, while he and Almy tried very hard not to laugh.

There used to be a teazle place in the 1960s off Carr Pit Road.

Our good neighbour, teazle, hath handled the subject of the proposed expedition in very able style.

Sir Peter Teazle and his lady, around whom so much of Sheridan's play revolves are good.

Raise the surface of each piece lightly with a teazle brush until a fluffy effect is obtained.

Raise the surface of each piece lightly with a teazle Brush, until a fluffy effect is obtained.

The 11/8 favourite for the Derby at Epsom was Didelot's stable companion, an unnamed brown colt sired by Sir Peter who would later be given the name Mr. Teazle. Despite his win at Newmarket, Didelot did not feature in the betting, suggesting that his role in the race was to provide pace and support for Mr. Teazle. Ridden by the experienced John Arnull (or Arnold), he won from Stickler, the Duke of Bedford's Leviathan and eight others. Mr. Teazle was unplaced.

Sir Peter Teazle also became an important stallion. Prunella's dam was Promise, a daughter of Champion sire Snap.

Lord Derby achieved his first success in the event in 1787, with a horse called Sir Peter Teazle.

But what was his surprise to find Short and teazle united, and out upon him, in full cry!

Not long ago, it will be remembered, she played Lady Teazle at a command performance of Sheridan's masterpiece.

The 1999 Arc and 2000 King George hero thus equalled the sires' Derby record of Sir Peter Teazle, Waxy, Cyllene and Blandford.

Maria's guardian Sir Peter Teazle has married a young wife, the splendid Sally Carman who plays the role like Bubble from Ab Fab.

She was third in the final race of her career, the His Majesty's Plate run on 21 August at York, losing to Lady Teazle and Columbine.

Parisot was foaled in 1793 and was sired by The Derby winner Sir Peter Teazle. Her dam, Deceit (foaled in 1784), was bred by Mr Tattersall and was owned by Sir Frank Standish. Deceit produced 13 foals between 1790 and 1808, of which Parisot was her fourth, and the second of eight sired by Sir Peter Teazle. Deceit was a full-sister to the 1786 Oaks winner the Yellow Filly.

She was the original Lady Gay Spanker of London Assurance (1841). In 1844 she withdrew again from the stage to marry Sir William Boothby, Bart., but on his death (1846), returned to play many parts, including Lady Teazle, Portia, and three dramatic parts created by Knowles: Constantine in the Love Chase and Helen and Julia in the Hunchback. It was as Lady Teazle that she made her final appearance in 1851.

Davison, late miss Duncan, Belinda in All in the Wrong. On 8 September 1819, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden, as Lady Teazle to Macready's Joseph Surface. The following year, on 31 October, she returned to Drury Lane, as Julia in the Rivals, for one night only. On 15 June 1821 she played Lady Teazle for her benefit at Covent Garden, and Marian Ramsay in Turn out.

His best-known parts were Triplet in Masks and Faces, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, Jacques in As You Like It, and Graves in Money.

Sir Peter Teazle (1784 – 18 August 1811) was a good British bred Thoroughbred racehorse, a Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland nine times, and carried on the sire line of Herod.

Snip died on 8 May 1757 and was replaced at Kenton by his son Snap. Snap was the sire of Goldfiner, Juniper and Latham's Snap. He was also the damsire of Sir Peter Teazle.

The last original part she played was the heroine of Holcroft's Force of Ridicule, 6 December 1796, which was unfavourably received on its first night and remains unprinted. On her last appearance, 8 April 1797, she played Lady Teazle; a large audience was attracted, and Farren, after speaking the farewell lines of her part, burst into tears. The Shakespearean parts of Hermione, Portia, Olivia and Juliet were in her repertory, but comedy parts such as Lady Betty Modish, Lady Townly, Lady Fanciful and Lady Teazle were her favourites. Farren had a slight figure and was above average height.

Sir Peter Teazle also went on to become a 10-time Champion sire. Snap died in July 1777 at West Wratting in Cambridgeshire, where he had been standing at stud since 1767. In total he sired winners of over 260 races worth over £90,000.

On 5 October 1857 she took the part of Pauline in Edward Bulwer- Lytton's Lady of Lyons at the Haymarket Theatre in London. The Winning Suit Sedgwick from the Illustrated London News Sedgwick's further roles at the Haymarket included Constance in The Love Chase by Sheridan Knowles, Hester Grazebrook in The Unequal Match by Tom Taylor, Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Julia in The Hunchback, Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, and Juliana in The Honeymoon. At the Olympic Theatre, beginning in 1861, she played Lady Teazle again, and went on to several further roles there."Obituary: Amy Sedgwick, Actress" The Advertiser (10 November 1897): 4.

Bunbury won the initial race in 1780 with his horse, Diomed; Derby himself won it in 1787 with Sir Peter Teazle.Thoroughbred Heritage: Sir Peter Teazle Retrieved 23 November 2010 His racing colours were black with a white cap. His influence on racing has been described as "crucial".

School For Scandal was the third production in a series presented by Terese Hayden. This was an 18th-century comedy which opened in June 1953 at the Theatre de Lys. Patricia Neal starred as Lady Teazle. Liska helped present The Genius and the Goddess, a 1957 Broadway play.

In 1886, he played Iago in Othello and Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal with F. R. Benson's company at Bournemouth. The same year, in London, he made a success at the Haymarket Theatre, in the character role of Baron Harzfeld in Jim the Penman by Charles Young.

Fortescue acted in plays in London and the provinces for over 40 years, playing such roles as Lady Teazle in School for Scandal. Her final London appearance was in 1926 in A Man Unknown, as Mrs. Deveraux, at the Court Theatre. May Fortescue died in London in 1950, aged 92 years.

Parisot was retired from racing in 1801. Parisot produced four live foals, two colts and two fillies, from 1803 to 1808. She was barren in 1802 and 1806 and aborted a colt by Mr. Teazle in 1804. Her 1807 filly, Pirouette, sired by Young Eagle finished second to Oriana in the 1810 Oaks.

Dipsacus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae. The members of this genus are known as teasel, teazel or teazle. The genus includes about 15 species of tall herbaceous biennial plants (rarely short- lived perennial plants) growing to tall. Dipsacus species are native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa.

Hare as Sir Peter Teazle and Marie Wilton (Mrs Bancroft) as Lady Teazle, in The School for Scandal in 1874 For the next nine years Hare remained a member of the Prince of Wales's company, appearing in a succession of Robertson's comedies and in other plays produced at the theatre. Among his parts were Prince Perovsky (Ours, Robertson, 1866), Sam Gerridge (Caste, Robertson, 1867), Bruce Fanquehere (Play, Robertson, 1868), Beau Farintosh (School, Robertson, 1869), Dunscombe Dunscombe (M. P., Robertson, 1870), Sir John Vesey (Money, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1872), and Sir Patrick Lundie (adaptation of Man and Wife, Wilkie Collins, 1873). He also appeared in curtain raisers such as Box and Cox, in which, having played Box in his amateur days, he now played Cox.

King's characters covered well over one hundred parts.The whole range of comedy, from Falstaff, Sir Peter Teazle, Sir Anthony Absolute, and Puff, to Ben in ‘Love for Love’ and Scrub, from Benedick and Sir Harry Wildair to Parolles, Bobadil, and Cloten. Engraving after Edward Dayes of a scene from Edgar and Emmeline by John Hawkesworth.

In the late 1870s, Litton managed the theatre at the Royal Aquarium, where she had some of her biggest acting successes, including as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal (1877), Lydia Languish in The Rivals (1878), Miss Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer and Rosalind in As You Like It (both in 1879).

On 24 May 1802, for his last benefit, King played his celebrated character Sir Peter Teazle. At the close he spoke an address written for him by Richard Cumberland. In the green-room, Dorothy Jordan presented him with an engraved silver cup subscribed for by the company. King died in Store Street on 11 December 1805.

Prunella was a bay filly bred by the 3rd Duke of Grafton and foaled in 1788. She was sired by the undefeated Great Subscription Purse winner Highflyer. Highflyer was also a top stallion, becoming Champion sire thirteen times. He sired three Epsom Derby winners in Noble, Sir Peter Teazle and Skyscraper along with several other classic winners.

After his final race Snap was sent to Kenton, Northumberland to replace his sire Snip at stud. He became a leading sire and was Champion sire in 1767, 1768, 1769 and 1771. His progeny included Latham's Snap and the undefeated Goldfinder. His was also the broodmare sire of Epsom Derby winners Assassin and Sir Peter Teazle.

He remained in the U.S., working in summer stock in roles as varied as Doolittle in Pygmalion, Jourdain in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal.Gaye, p. 289 He returned to London in 1959 to appear in Noël Coward's play Look After Lulu! in which he also later played on Broadway.

In 2016 he appeared off-Broadway as Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.The School for Scandal review by Shani R. Friedman, Theatre Is Easy, April 30, 2016 As of 2017 he is playing the role of Carlton Miller, aide to Mayor Margaret Dutton (Lorraine Bracco) on the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods.

Petronius was a bay horse bred by his owner Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and was the fifth of the Duke's seven St Leger winners. His sire, Sir Peter Teazle (or simply "Sir Peter") won the Epsom Derby in 1787 and became the most successful stallion of the time, winning the title of Champion sire on ten occasions between 1799 and 1809.

Garrick studied the part and resigned it to King, who accepted it with reluctance, but Garrick was pleased with his conception. In July 1766 King broke his leg, and was unable to act until the following November. On 8 May 1777, when he was the original Sir Peter Teazle in the outstanding first representation of The School for Scandal, King also spoke Garrick's prologue.

He also played Hotspur, Sir Peter Teazle, and other characters, but was not successful in comic parts. On Talfourd's recommendation, he was engaged at Covent Garden by Charles Kemble. In March 1829 he made his first appearance there as Virginius, and later that month played Shylock. There was much divergence among critics as to his merits, but Talfourd still eulogised him as a tragedian.

The Duchess was a bay mare bred by Mr Ellerker and was the fifth of eight foals produced by Ellerker's mare Miss Nancy (1803-1817). The Duchess was the only classic winner sired by Cardinal York, a son of Sir Peter Teazle. Cardinal York was based at Mr T Kirby's stable at York, where he was standing at a fee of seven guineas in 1816.

He was as inimitable in burlesque as in serious drama, and played such diverse parts as the Widow Twankey in Aladdin, Falstaff, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice and Fagin in Oliver Twist. But his greatest triumphs were in old English comedy, and though possibly Lambert may have equalled his performance of Sir Anthony Absolute, Roger's Sir Peter Teazle stood alone on the Australian stage.

On stage, Beaumont's leading credits include playing Lady MacBeth described in a UK Theater critique by Sara Mae Tuson as the "journey she takes from manipulative harpy to broken queen" is a "vividly portrayed, compelling performance." Her work as the lead, Lady Teazle, in a School for Scandal was a "delicious" portrayal. Beaumont also played the leads as Martha Dobie in The Children's Hour and Libby in Blue Window.

Charretie sent forty miniatures to the Royal Academy, four to the British Institution, and thirty-two to Suffolk Street. She was also a regular exhibitor at the Dudley Gallery and often exhibited in the provinces. 'Lady Betty' and 'A Stone in her Shoe' appeared in 1870; 'Lady Teazle, behind the Screen' in 1871; 'Lady Betty's Maid' in 1873; and 'Mistress of herself tho' China fall', her last work, in 1875.

Her Rosalind, Aspatia (to Macready's Melantius) in The Bridal, and Lady Teazle to the Charles Surface of Walter Lacy (whom she was married in 1839) confirmed her position and popularity. She was the original Helen in The Hunchback (1832), and also created Nell Gwynne in Douglas William Jerrold's play of that name, and the heroine in his Housekeeper. She was considered the leading Ophelia of her day. She retired in 1848.

Neva was a bay mare sired by Cervantes out of Mary, a daughter of The Derby winner Sir Peter Teazle and a sister of the Doncaster Cup winner Caleb Quotem. Cervantes was best known as a sire of broodmares: his daughters produced the 2000 Guineas winner Grey Momus and Melbourne, who in turn sired the Triple Crown winner West Australian. Neva was bred by a Mr. Tibbits and raced in the ownership of George Watson.

Compton Martin was the birthplace of Saint Wulfric (1080–1154), hermit and miracle worker. Around 1500 teazle farming for use in the weaving of cloth became a major local industry. In 1770 a new whipping post was installed by the pond for corporal punishment for minor offences such as petty larceny, vagrancy or absence from church. The organ at Frenchay Unitarian Church came from the former Compton Martin Methodist Church in 1980.

Walton was a bay colt bred by Sir Hedworth Williamson and foaled in 1799. He was sired by Sir Peter Teazle, who won the Derby at Epsom in 1787. Sir Peter then went on to become a very successful stallion and was champion sire of Great Britain ten times. Amongst his other progeny were Derby winners Sir Harry, Archduke, Ditto and Paris, as well as six other Classic winners and the sire Haphazard.

Sir Peter Teazle was a brown horse bred and owned by Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby. His sire Highflyer was on the Leading Sire list 16 times, producing 469 winners, seven of which won classic races. Highflyer also got the mare Prunella, and the sons Delpini, Diamond, and Traveller. Sir Peter Teazle's dam, Papillon, was by Snap, himself on the Leading Sire list four times and a great producer of raw speed.

Papillon had some success as a racehorse, finishing third out of 22 in the 1773 Craven Stakes, losing to Firetail and Miss Timms. Sir Peter was her 7th out of 12 living foals, and one of several winners she produced, including the filly Lady Teazle (1781), who was second in The Oaks and won 11 races during her career. The name comes from a character in the classic comic play The School for Scandal.

Born at Frimley, Surrey, she trained at RADA, and began her acting career with the Liverpool Playhouse in April 1961, aged 18. Her first role was as Nina in The Seagull. She would go on to play such characters as Lady Teazle (The School for Scandal), Isabel (The Enchanted), Cilla Curtis (Amateur Means Lover) and Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest). She went on to act with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

On 17 May he was the first Dentatus in Sheridan Knowles's Virginius. At the Haymarket during the summer seasons Terry played a great round of comic characters.Including Hardy in the Belle's Stratagem, Old Mirabel in Wine does Wonders (a compressed version of the Inconstant), Peachum in ‘Beggar's Opera,’ Falstaff in Henry IV, pt. i, Old Hardcastle, Sir Peter Teazle, Dr. Pangloss, Polonius, Lear, Sir Anthony Absolute, Pierre in Venice Preserved, and Rob Roy.

' Glasgow, Carlisle, the Lincoln, York, and Worcester circuits, and Manchester, Birmingham, Bath, and Bristol saw him in leading business in comedy. In Manchester he first enacted Sir Peter Teazle. Chippendale spent 17 years at Price's Park Theatre in New York. Chippendale returned to the United Kingdom in 1853, performing at the Haymarket Theatre for over two decades, and took the role of Polonius in the Henry Irving production of Hamlet at the Lyceum.

Arnull hailed from a family of jockeys that dominated British horse racing in the latter part of the 18th century and early 19th. He was the younger brother of John Arnull and uncle of Bill Arnull. Between them, the family won twelve Derbies in the race's formative years. He himself won four of them — 1780 (Diomed), 1782 (Assassin), 1787 (Sir Peter Teazle), 1798 (Sir Harry) — as well as an Oaks on Hermione in 1794.

She debuted in London at the Haymarket Theatre. There, at age 16, she played Lady Teazle and then, opposite Samuel Phelps, numerous leading parts. She replaced Madge Kendal in Diplomacy and played Esther Eccles in Caste, by T. W. Robertson. She appeared opposite Mary Anderson as Cynisca in Pygmalion and Galatea by W. S. Gilbert and created the other Gilbert roles, including Darine in The Wicked World (1873) and Eve in Charity (1874).

Neilson accepted an engagement at the Lyceum in the autumn that year. She performed in Cymbeline by William Shakespeare at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York on 14 May 1877. She not only achieved distinction on the American stage, but accumulated a considerable fortune. The parts that she acted in America included Juliet, Rosalind, Viola, Beatrice, Imogen and Isabella, from Shakespeare and Amy Robsart, Julia, Pauline and Lady Teazle, from other authors.

His wife joined the Women's Executive Committee of the Fund. Edwards appeared in early 1882 at Palmer's Theatre on Broadway and West 30th Street in a production of the English comedy The School for Scandal. Wallack stalwart John Gibbs Gilbert reached the height of his fame in the production, playing Sir Peter Teazle. As Sir Oliver Surface, Edwards, too, was lauded—Gilbert and Edwards shared the stage with Stella Boniface, Osmond Tearle, Gerald Eyre, Madame Ponisi and Rose Coghlan.

In 1903 Van Studdiford opened the opera Maid Marian and later debuted The Red Feather which was specially written for her. This opera also boasted some of the most elaborate costumes up to that date. She played in and toured The Red Feather for two years. After touring with The Red Feather, Van Studdiford chose her next title part in the opera Lady Teazle which was not performed on Broadway but at several popular music halls throughout the country.

Ambrosio was a bay horse with a small white sire bred by J Lowther. His sire, Sir Peter Teazle (or simply "Sir Peter") won The Derby in 1787 and became the most successful stallion of the time, winning the title of Champion sire on ten occasions between 1799 and 1809. Ambrosio was the second foal of his dam, Tulip, an influential broodmare whose other descendants included the Derby winner Pyrrhus the First and the 1000 Guineas winner Galantine.

The two married in 1834, setting up house at Loughton in Essex. In 1837, he distinguished himself as the author of an elaborate volume on English Pleasure Carriages, and another on The Construction of Common Roads and Railroads. He was also a contributor to some of the principal reviews and newspapers. Encouraged by her husband, Adams turned to acting and in the 1837 season at Richmond played Lady Macbeth, followed by Portia and Lady Teazle, all successes.

Subsequently he was stage-manager at Covent Garden. He played Pizarro, Lord Lovell in A New Way to pay Old Debts, O'Donnell in Henri Quatre, Buckingham in Henry VIII, and other parts, and was on 28 November 1829 the first Major O'Simper in Follies of Fashion, by the Earl of Glengall. He married Miss Turpin, an actress at the Haymarket Theatre. In America he was received as Hamlet, Sir Peter Teazle, Sir Anthony Absolute, and many other parts.

His last part at the Prince of Wales's was in 1874: Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal to the Lady Teazle of Mrs Bancroft, with Bancroft and Charles Coghlan as the Surface brothers. He was praised for rescuing his role from the low comedy treatment it had long suffered, but some thought his portrayal erred in the opposite direction and was too serious."Prince of Wales's Theatre", The Standard, 6 April 1874, p. 2; "Prince of Wales Theatre", The Morning Post, 6 April 1874, p. 6; "The Prince of Wales's Theatre", The Pall Mall Gazette, 14 April 1874, pp. 11–12; and "The School for Scandal", The Era , 26 July 1874, p. 11 Hare left the company in October 1874, when he was unable to master a leading role written for him in Sweethearts by W. S. Gilbert. The author was a close friend and wished to make use both of Hare's naturally boyish appearance and of his talent for impersonating elderly men, contrasting the character in youth in the first act and old age in the second.

Dyas was one of those who took exception to the regulations and left to join Wallack's.Hornblow, Arthur. A History of the Theatre in America from Its Beginnings to the Present Time, J. B. Lippincott, 1919 Later, at Wallack's, her most successful rôles were those of Kate Hardcastle, Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, Lady Gay Spanker, Lydia Languish, and especially that of Claire Ffolliott in Boucicault's The Shaughraun. After Wallack's she became a member of the Madison Square Company.

Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006Lady Teazle, "Society," San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 1903, page 11U.S. Passport application, 121, Volume 179 He had two brothers, Autrey and Rowan Adams.1880 U.S. censusWilliam S. Speer, Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010, page 442 He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Tennessee in 1898, a bachelor of laws from the University of Minnesota in 1907, and a master of arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1938.

Morley, p. 133 After playing briefly and without much pleasure in New York, Ashcroft returned to London in 1937 for a season of four plays presented by Gielgud at the Queen's Theatre. She played the Queen in Richard II, Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, Irina in Three Sisters and Portia in The Merchant of Venice. The company included Harry Andrews, Glen Byam Shaw, George Devine, Michael Redgrave and Harcourt Williams, with Angela Baddeley and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as guests.

In 1876, she appeared adaptations of two French plays at the Haymarket Theatre and the Standard Theatre, and in Lady Clancarty by Tom Taylor, and the next year she played in The Lady of Lyons and The School for Scandal. Other important roles in the 1870s included Lady Macbeth and Lady Teazle, both at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. She appeared in the breeches role of Abdallah in The Forty Thieves, a burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre, in 1878.Hollingshead, John.

Farren, like his father, ripened slowly. It was not until middle age, when juvenile roles were abandoned, that he gradually established himself in public favour. One of the last of the traditional representatives of the Sir Anthony Absolutes and Mr. Hardcastles of classic English comedy, he achieved in Sir Peter Teazle, according to the critics of 1896, 'a masterpiece of sheer virtuosity,' but he lacked his father's powers, and his gifts of humorous expression were confined to the dry and caustic.

Thorndike also acted with Sybil and her husband, Lewis Casson, in their touring repertory performing melodramas. In 1922 he was applauded for his performance in the first professional production of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt at the Old Vic. In film, Thorndike's appearances were infrequent. He played Macbeth (1922) in a silent version of the play opposite Sybil's Lady and also played leads in silent versions of other classic plays, including Scrooge (1923) as Old Ebenezer, and The School for Scandal (1923) as Sir Peter Teazle.

His biggest hit was "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl," which Marie Dressler introduced in Tillie's Nightmare (1910), but none of his songs found enduring popularity. He composed only rarely after 1912, but he did provide much of the music for the 1919 and 1920 Greenwich Village Follies. He wrote one of his musicals, Lady Teazle, for Lillian Russell when she was at the height of her national popularity. His last score, for the 1925 Broadway production China Rose, was in production at his death.

1 Richardson's next stage role was in a starry revival of The School for Scandal, as Sir Peter Teazle, directed by Gielgud in 1962. The production was taken on a North American tour, in which Gielgud joined the cast as, he said, "the oldest Joseph Surface in the business".Miller, p. 185 A revival of Six Characters in Search of an Author in 1963 was judged by the critic Sheridan Morley to have been a high-point of the actor's work in the 1960s.

By the early 1840s, Compton had earned the reputation of being the best Shakespearian clown of his age. He continued in seasons at Dublin, Ireland, at Drury Lane (playing Polonius, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, and Foresight in William Congreve's Love for Love), at Manchester and elsewhere. At the Princess's Theatre, London, where he performed for three years, he famously played Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It in 1844. He was then at the Olympic Theatre, where he also remained three years.

Other notable roles that followed included Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer, Gnatbrain in Black-Eyed Susan, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal and Foresight in Love for Love. By the early 1840s, Compton had earned the reputation of being the best Shakespearian clown of his age both in London and in the provinces. He performed for three years at the Princess's Theatre, London, famously playing Touchstone in As You Like It in 1844. He also played at the Olympic Theatre for three years, then the Royal Strand Theatre.

Sinclair, circa 1868 Sinclair, who reverted to her maiden name after the divorce, had never intended a life on the stage and had never appeared onstage before her divorce, began her career as an actress shortly after the divorce, partly due to Forrest's challenge of the court ruling. She began working with the actor George Vandenhoff to prepare for a life of acting. On February 22, 1852, Sinclair appeared as Lady Teazle in School for Scandal at Brougham's Lyceum Theatre in New York. She ran to full houses for eight consecutive nights.

In September, Cecil was at the Gaiety Theatre, London, reprising his role in Cox and Box opposite the composer's brother, Fred Sullivan, as Box."The London Theatres", The Era, 6 September 1874, p. 11. The next year, he was back at the Gaiety in The Merry Wives of Windsor as Dr. Caius; and at the Opera Comique, in As You Like It, as Touchstone, in The School for Scandal as Sir Peter Teazle, and in She Stoops to Conquer, as Tony Lumpkin. In 1876, he was back at the Globe.

Paulina was a bay mare bred by her owner William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam. Her sire, Sir Peter Teazle (or simply "Sir Peter") won the Epsom Derby in 1787 and became the most successful stallion of the time, winning the title of Champion sire on ten occasions between 1799 and 1809. Paulina's dam Pewett won the St Leger for Lord Fitzwilliam in 1789 before becoming a highly successful and influential broodmare. Before foaling Paulina she had produced Sir Paul, who won the Craven Stakes and finished third in the 1805 St Leger.

Warren was at his best in such roles as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, Dr. Primrose and Touchstone in As You Like It. In December 1853, Warren was accused of shooting Singleton Mercer. He had been the defendant in a sensational attempted murder trial and was acquitted. The events were fictionalized in George Lippard's The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall.Daily Gazette, Utica, NY, 30 December 1853 Warren was never charged in the case, and Mercer ultimately recovered from his injury.

Alma Stuart Stanley (26 October 1854 – 8 March 1931) was a British actress and vocalist once popular on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. She was perhaps best remembered as Lady Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Aphrodite in George Procter Hawtrey's Atlanta. In a career of more than thirty years she appeared in some sixty plays and made two North American tours. Her later years were spent in reduced circumstances, culminating with her death at a London prison hospital following an arrest for public intoxication.

His first appearance in New York was in 1824, at the old Chatham Theatre, as Frederick, in The Poor Gentleman, and in The Three Singles. While playing at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, in 1827, he received the first call before the curtain ever given to an actor in this country. In 1839 he visited England, making his first appearance there in the Haymarket Theatre, London. On 21 April 1863, while playing Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal in the Boston Theatre he was suddenly taken ill, and died the next day.

The newspaper's gossip columnist is Lady Teazle, actually one of the characters in Sheridan's The School for Scandal. This scene included a lengthy song poking fun at David Lloyd George, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Scene 3 takes place on the New Mayflower, a yacht which is carrying passengers to New Ellis Island. Though the yacht catches fire and sinks, the next scene is still set in New Ellis Island, a newly discovered country to which Britain has taken to banishing its bores and other inconvenient inhabitants.

Attila's sire, Colwick, a descendant of Sir Peter Teazle, was a successful but unexceptional racehorse who had stood at a fee of 10 guineas at Bonehill Farm near Fazeley in Staffordshire, as well as covering mares for Lord Exeter at Burleigh, although his fee doubled after Attila's successes. He was known for siring both racehorses and hunters. Attila's dam, Progress, was a sister to Miss Cobden, who produced the Grand National winner Freetrader. According to "Sylvanus", writing in Bentley's Miscellany, Attila had a distinctive habit of racing with his head "remarkably low".

Lacy was born, as Walter Williams, in Bristol in 1809, the son of a coach-builder, and was educated for the medical profession. He was first seen on the stage in Edinburgh in 1829, as Count Montalban in The Honey Moon; he was playing there again in 1832, and acted also in Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester. His debut in London was at the Haymarket Theatre in August 1838, as Charles Surface in The School for Scandal. Harriette Taylor, who played Lady Teazle in the production, became Lacy's wife in 1839.

Davison was taller than average, with dark hair, and strongly formed with very expressive features. She had a fine voice and a good knowledge of music, sang with much expression, and was in her day unequalled in such Scotch ballads as John Anderson and Roy's Wife. Her singing as Marchioness Mérida in the Travellers,, which took place at Drury Lane 13 May 1823, proved she was an opera singer. It was said that there was no better exponent of Lady Teazle, Lady Townly, Beatrice, and other similar parts.

Rare Machinery tells the story of woollen cloth production in Trowbridge from its domestic beginnings through to the mechanisation of the process. As well as a complete Spinning Jenny – one of only five examples left in the world – the museum's displays will include a fulling machine which was patented by Trowbridge engineer, John Dyer, in 1833. It was such a technically accomplished design that the machine remained unchanged and was still in use in the 20th century. A fine teazle gig, which was used to raise the nap of the cloth, will also be on display.

Fyldener was a bay horse "of great size and power" with black legs and no white markings, bred by John Clifton. His sire, Sir Peter Teazle (or simply "Sir Peter") won the Epsom Derby in 1787 and became the most successful stallion of the time, winning the title of Champion sire on ten occasions between 1799 and 1809. His Dam, Fanny, was an important broodmare, having previously produced the Doncaster Cup winner and Derby runner-up Sir Oliver, and a successful racehorse named Poulton. Fanny's other direct descendants included Chapeau d'Espagne and Rattlewings, the Foundation mare of Thoroughbred family 13-e.

Henry was born in Dublin, performed there and in London, and went to Jamaica with Charles Storer and his family about 1762. He made his New York debut at the opening of the John Street Theatre on December 7, 1767 playing the role of Aimwell in The Beaux' Stratagem. He is said to have been the first to play the role of Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal in America. At the end of the American Revolution, after additional time in England and Jamaica, he returned to America and worked with Lewis Hallam Jr. to manage the American Company.

The Times, 26 March 1879, p. 5, reprinted at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 31 July 2011 In 1883 she was engaged by the Bancrofts to play leading parts in 'Fédora' and other dramas at the Haymarket Theatre. In 1891 she played Lady Teazle in Charles Wyndham's production of School for Scandal, and two years later played Mrs. Arbuthnot with Herbert Beerbohm Tree in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance. Beere married three times; firstly in 1874 to Edward Cholmeley Dering (1833–1874), with whom she had a daughter, Janet Elizabeth Adela Dering (1874–1875).

There followed a long engagement at Drury Lane Theatre, under F. B. Chatterton and Edmund Falconer. There she first appeared on 8 October 1864 as Desdemona, in a powerful cast which included Phelps as Othello and William Creswick as Iago. She repeated many of the chief parts she had already played at Sadler's Wells, adding to them the Lady in Milton's Comus (17 April 1865), Marguerite in Bayle Bernard's Faust (20 October 1866), in which she made a great hit; Helen in The Hunchback, with Helen Faucit as Julia (November 1866); and Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal (4 March 1867).

The Tremont was managed then by Thomas Barry, who died on February 11, 1876, full of years and honors. Gilbert remained at the Tremont Theatre five years. The versatility of his talents and the variety of his efforts at that time are denoted by the list of parts which he acted during the first season with Barry. This includes Master Walter, Isaac of York, Sir Peter Teazle, Pizarro, Iago, Sir Edward Mortimer, Admiral Kingston, Lieutenant Worthington, Sir Robert Bramble, Polonius, Uncle John, Tom Noddy, Macduff, Mr. Dornton, Squeers, King Henry the Sixth, Adam, Malec, Kent and Rolanio.

St Patrick made his first appearance at Catterick Bridge Racecourse on 6 April. Ridden by Bob Johnson, he won the Old Stakes over two miles, beating Cumberland, Borodino and High Sheriff. After a break of four and a half months, St Patrick reappeared at York Racecourse on 24 August when he contested a sweepstakes over ten furlongs and "won cleverly" from Lady of the Vale and Fitz-Teazle. On 26 September, St Patrick was one of a record field of twenty-seven colts and fillies to contest the forty-fifth running of the St Leger at Doncaster Racecourse.

Richardson joined a British Council tour of South Africa and Europe the following year; he played Bottom again, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. John Gielgud (left) as Joseph Surface, and Richardson as Sir Peter Teazle, The School for Scandal, 1962 For his next four stage productions, Richardson was at the Haymarket. Father Carving a Statue (1964) by Graham Greene was short- lived. He had a more reliable vehicle in Shaw's You Never Can Tell (1966) in which he played the philosopher-waiter William, and in the same year he had a great success as Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals.

On 2 April 1820, the latter edifice was destroyed by fire, and, as the insurance had expired a few days before, the loss was heavy. Having secured a lease of the Walnut Street Theatre, the Warren-Wood company began to play again in Philadelphia the following November. On the 27th of that month Master Edwin Forrest made his first appearance there on any stage in Douglas. The Chestnut Street Theatre having been rebuilt, it was opened by the same managers on 2 December 1822 with the School for Scandal, Warren playing Sir Peter Teazle, and Wood, Charles Surface.

Best Mate, a triple Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, which died on the course in 2005 The course has historically had a Gold Cup race, which was won in 1807 by Lord Charles Somerset's horse, Bagatelle, sire of Sir Peter Teazle. There have also been special races in the 1810s to focus on three- year-old thoroughbreds foaled in the West Country. Presently the best known race is the Haldon Gold Cup, held in November. In 2005 the three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Best Mate, collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack after its jockey pulled up during the race.

She also featured in television advertisements for Maltesers alongside fellow actress and comedian Amanda Abbington. Parkinson played Sophie, one of the lead roles along with Mark Heap (Bob Stevens), in BBC Four's three-part comedy series The Great Outdoors. She starred in the first episode of Inside No. 9. In 2010–2011, she appeared in Season's Greetings at the National Theatre and in 2011 as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre. She starred in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, a four-part BBC comedy series which premiered on BBC Two on 19 December 2011.

Here or at Bristol he played in his first season Macbeth, Clifford in The Heiress, Evander in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy, Shylock, lago, Iachimo, Pierre, Lord Davenant, Mr. Oakly, several French characters, and other parts, appearing for his benefit as Gibbet in The Beaux Stratagem, with his wife as Cherry. Genest related that they did not sell a single ticket. Here he remained until 1796, playing a great variety of parts.They included King John, Osmyn in The Mourning Bride, Adam in As you like it, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, Old Dornton in The Road to Ruin by Thomas Holcroft.

Gielgud (left) as Joseph Surface, and Ralph Richardson as Sir Peter Teazle, The School for Scandal, 1962 During the early 1960s Gielgud had more successes as a director than as an actor. He directed the first London performance of Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream (1961) at Covent Garden and Hugh Wheeler's Big Fish, Little Fish on Broadway, the latter winning him a Tony for Best Direction of a Play in 1961. His performance as Othello at Stratford in the same year was less successful; Franco Zeffirelli's production was thought ponderous and Gielgud "singularly unvehement".Hope-Wallace, Philip. "Zeffirelli's Othello", The Guardian, 11 October 1961, p.

Her first regular engagement was from Tate Wilkinson, as a member of whose company she appeared in York near the end of last century, playing as her first role, Sophia in Holcroft's Road to Ruin, and Gillim in Dibdin's The Quaker. As she became more popular, she acted in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Liverpool. At Margate in 1804, she was engaged by Wroughton for Drury Lane, where she appeared 8 October 1804 as Miss Duncan from Edinburgh, playing Lady Teazle to the Sir Peter of Mathews, and the Charles Surface of Elliston. Rosalind in As You Like It followed on the 18th, and Lady Townly on the 27th.

At the Second Spring meeting in May, Squire Teazle and Babylon were both withdrawn from match races against Quiz over the Beacon Course, enabling Dawson to collect 150 guineas in forfeits without having to run his horse. Later at the same meeting, however, Quiz was beaten for the first time in a year, when he was defeated by Lord Sackvill's six-year-old Dick Andrews in a 100 guinea match. The Sporting Magazine reported that the race attracted more than £10,000 in betting. On 20 May Quiz won his second Brocket Hall Gold Cup, walking over the three and a half mile course when the other fourteen runners were withdrawn by their owners.

After her opening-night performance in the role of Lady Teazle, Mankiewicz returned to the press room "… full of fury and too many drinks …", wrote biographer Richard Meryman: > He was outraged by the spectacle of a 56-year-old millionairess playing a > gleeful 18-year-old, the whole production bought for her like a trinket by a > man Herman knew to be an unscrupulous manipulator. Herman began to write: > "Miss Gladys Wallis, an aging, hopelessly incompetent amateur, opened last > night in ..." Then Herman passed out, slumped over the top of his > typewriter. The unconscious Mankiewicz was discovered by his boss, George S. Kaufman, who composed a terse announcement that the Times review would appear the following day. Mankiewicz resurrected the incident for Citizen Kane.

He played Richard III, Sir Peter Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Antrobus in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, appearing alongside Leigh in the latter two plays. While Olivier was on the Australian tour and Richardson was in Hollywood, Esher terminated the contracts of the three directors, who were said to have "resigned". Melvyn Bragg in a 1984 study of Olivier, and John Miller in the authorised biography of Richardson, both comment that Esher's action put back the establishment of a National Theatre for at least a decade. Looking back in 1971, Bernard Levin wrote that the Old Vic company of 1944 to 1948 "was probably the most illustrious that has ever been assembled in this country".

Although it was common knowledge that the Old Vic triumvirate had been dismissed, they refused to be drawn on the matter in public, and Olivier even arranged to play a final London season with the company in 1949, as Richard III, Sir Peter Teazle, and Chorus in his own production of Anouilh's Antigone with Leigh in the title role. After that, he was free to embark on a new career as an actor-manager. In partnership with Binkie Beaumont he staged the English premiere of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, with Leigh in the central role of Blanche DuBois. The play was condemned by most critics, but the production was a considerable commercial success, and led to Leigh's casting as Blanche in the 1951 film version.

In a production of Sheridan's The School for Scandal, directed by Sir John Gielgud in 1962, McEwan replaced Anna Massey as Mrs Teazle during the run at the Haymarket Theatre, London; her husband was played by Sir Ralph Richardson.Sheridan Morley Gielgud: The Authorised Biography, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p.339 After an American tour, this production was staged at the Majestic in New York in early 1963, and was McEwan's debut on Broadway.John Chapman "The School for Scandal is Memorable", Chicago Tribune (reprint of Daily News (New York) item), 26 January 1963, p.64 Back in England, she appeared with Kenneth Williams in the original unsuccessful 1965 production of Loot by Joe Orton, which closed at the Wimbledon Theatre before reaching London.

12 and Kent in King Lear. Two of his most celebrated roles were in The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, of which The Times said, "while he could wring the last drop of dramatic tension from the role of Shylock, he could also play Sir Toby Belch in such a way as to bring out the essence of the comedy without suggesting that the old reprobate had never known better days." In the West End, he directed and played in numerous plays. His roles in these included the Nobleman in The Man with a Load of Mischief (1925), one of Marie Tempest's suitors in Noël Coward's The Marquise (1927), Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal (1929) and the King in the Improper Duchess (1931).

The title role was played by her old friend Vivien Leigh, whose marriage to Laurence Olivier was on the verge of breakdown; Forbes devoted much time to supporting and comforting her. In 1962, Forbes played Lady Sneerwell to Richardson's Sir Peter Teazle in John Gielgud's production of The School For Scandal in London, New York and on a North American tour. Husband and wife were together again in 1964 as Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in a tour sponsored by the British Council, playing in South America, Lisbon, Paris, Madrid and Athens.Gaye, p. 614 In 1967 husband and wife appeared together in a BBC television series, with Richardson playing Lord Emsworth in dramatisations of PGWodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, and Forbes playing Emsworth's bossy sister Constance.

Nineteenth-century critics wrote that the script "displays so much spirit and originality, so much of the true qualities which are required in dramatic composition, that it may fairly stand upon its own intrinsic worth, and that the author may fearlessly challenge a comparison with any other modern dramatist." On 26 October 1829, at the age of 20, Kemble first appeared on the stage as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden Theatre, after only three weeks of rehearsals. Her attractive personality at once made her a great favourite, and her popularity enabled her father to recoup his losses as a manager. She played all the principal women's roles of the time, notably Shakespeare's Portia and Beatrice (Much Ado about Nothing), and Lady Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, by John Singer Sargent, 1889 In 1875, Terry gave an acclaimed performance as Portia in The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, produced by the Bancrofts. Oscar Wilde wrote a sonnet, upon seeing her in this role: "No woman Veronese looked upon/Was half so fair as thou whom I behold." She recreated this role many times in her career until her last appearance as Portia at London's Old Vic Theatre in 1917. In 1876 she appeared as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, Blanche Haye in a revival of T. W. Robertson's Ours, and the title role in Olivia by William Gorman Wills at the Court Theatre (an adaptation of The Vicar of Wakefield), where she joined the company of John Hare.

From the beginning he specialized in comic old men and Irish parts. A decade of provincial apprenticeship followed in southern England and in Dublin (where he married); his first roles included Adam Contest in Elizabeth Inchbald's The Wedding Day and Lovegold in Henry Fielding's translation of Molière's The Miser; however, his name is associated with a wide variety of roles. His first London appearance was in 1818 at Covent Garden as Sir Peter Teazle (in Sheridan's The School for Scandal), a part with which his name was always associated: he was an instant popular and critical success. He succeeded also in Colman and Garrick's The Clandestine Marriage.Hazlitt 500. He played at Covent Garden every winter until 1828, and began in 1824 a series of summer engagements at the Haymarket which also lasted some years.

In April 1867 the Robertsons returned to London, where Madge appeared at Drury Lane, playing Edith Fairlam in The Great City, and then at the Haymarket in E. A. Sothern's company, appearing with him in Our American Cousin, Brother Sam, David Garrick and A Hero of Romance, and playing leading roles in two other productions there. At the opening of John Hollingshead's Gaiety Theatre in December 1868 she played Florence in On the Cards, a comedy adapted from the French;"The Gaiety Theatre", The Theatrical Journal, 13 January 1869, p. 10 she also appeared there as Lady Clara Vere de Vere in Dreams in 1869, before rejoining the Haymarket company, at this point on tour under the management of J. B. Buckstone. She played Viola, Rosalind, Lady Teazle, Kate Hardcastle and Lydia Languish.

Her first success was in Ireland as Lady Townley (in The Provoked Husband by Vanbrugh and Cibber), and it was only after five years, on the pressing invitation of David Garrick, that she returned to Drury Lane. In 1759, after an unhappy marriage to her music teacher, the royal trumpeter James Abington, she was mentioned in the bills as "Mrs. Abington". She remained at the Drury Lane for 18 years, being the first to play more than 30 important characters, notably Lady Teazle (1777). In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her as Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked to his brother Mrs Abington as Miss Prue by Sir Joshua Reynolds Her Shakespeare heroines – Beatrice, Portia, Desdemona and Ophelia – were no less successful than her comic characters – Miss Hoyden, Biddy Tipkin, Lucy Lockit and Miss Prue.Mrs.

The Royal Aquarium Theatre, managed by Litton in the 1870s Litton played Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal (1877) at the Royal Aquarium's theatre. In 1878, she became the manager of that theatre (renamed the Imperial Theatre in 1879), succeeding her husband. Her company there, which included the veteran actor Samuel Phelps and such other notable actors as Hermann Vezin, Kyrle Bellew and Lionel Brough, produced revivals of classic English comedies. There, she played Lydia Languish in The Rivals (1878) and Miss Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (1879) for a long run. She also produced there a revival of Gilbert's Great Expectations (1877),Adams, pp. 257 and 605 the farce Fun in a Fog and Family Honour by Frank Marshall (both in 1878),Adams, pp. 488 and 555 The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar and The Poor Gentleman (1879).Adams, pp.

After her opening- night performance in the role of Lady Teazle, drama critic Mankiewicz returned to the press room "full of fury and too many drinks", wrote biographer Richard Meryman: > He was outraged by the spectacle of a 56-year-old millionairess playing a > gleeful 18-year-old, the whole production bought for her like a trinket by a > man Herman knew to be an unscrupulous manipulator. Herman began to write: > "Miss Gladys Wallis, an aging, hopelessly incompetent amateur, opened last > night in ..." Then Herman passed out, slumped over the top of his > typewriter. Mankiewicz resurrected the experience in writing the screenplay for Citizen Kane, incorporating it into the narrative of drama critic Jedediah Leland. After Kane's second wife makes her catastrophic opera debut, Leland returns to the press room and passes out over the top of his typewriter after writing the first sentence of his review: "Miss Susan Alexander, a pretty but hopelessly incompetent amateur ..."Meryman, Richard.

The fourth season opened August 19, 1850, with Barrett as stage manager, and the American debuts of William Davidge, Frederick B. Conway, and Henry Scharf, and Sarah Anderton. During the season, Conway played opposite Cushman in The Stranger and other plays, and also appeared in The School for Scandal, Morton's All That Glitters is Not Gold, Douglas Jerrold's comedy Retired From Business, a new drama called Presented at Court, James Planché's A Day of Reckoning, a French drama called Belphœger, a new spectacle from the French called Azael, the Prodigal, The Husband of My Heart, The Idol of My Heart, G. H. Boker's The Betrothal, and Sullivan's Old Love and New. Playing opposite Conway in the last four was Madame Ponisi (Mrs. Elizabeth Wallis), who made her New York debut November 11, as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, and was so successful that she was at once given "leading business".

Speaking of this debut and of Julia Dean's > early years, Ireland in his History of the New York Stage wrote: "Youthful, > graceful, delicately pretty, with a slight Hibernian cast of features, she > at once awakened the public interest, and her intelligence and graceful > study lent a charm to her performance which soon carried her to a point of > popularity rarely exceeded". Leading roles which Dean played over her career would include Camille, Lady Macbeth, Lea in Leah the Forsaken, Parthenia in Ingomar,Maria Lovell adapted from the German of Friedrich Halm Clapp and Edgett. Plays of the Present, 1902, p. 136 Retrieved November 18, 2013 Lucretia Borgia,William Young adapted from the French of Victor Hugo Lucrezia Borgia, A Tragedy 1847 Retrieved November 18, 2013 Medea, Marco in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart,Charles Selby from the French Les Filles de Marbe: Lady Teazle, Peg Woffington, Bianca in FazioHenry Hart Milman and Pauline in The Lady of Lyons. Dean was the original Norma in Epes Sargent's Priestess, and the first to play Leonor in George Henry Boker’s tragedy about Eleanor de Guzmán.

Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1855 He was an active supporter of the Church of England, and assisted in the building of a number of Anglican churches and schools in the Manchester area. Birley was granted armorial bearings by the College of Arms, the blazon of which was as follows: Sable on a fesse engrailed between three boars' heads couped argent, a mascle between three cross crosslets of the field, and for the Crest upon a wreath of the colours a demi-boar rampant sable collared argent the chain reflexed over the back or supporting a branch of wild teazle proper, charged on the shoulder with a millrind argent.Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families - A Dictionary of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, London, 1899 At the 1868 general election the representation of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester was increased to three members of parliament. Birley was elected as the first Conservative MP for the town, alongside the two sitting Liberal Party members, Thomas Bazley and Jacob Bright.