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Frederic Stanhope Hill was born in 1805, Boston, Massachussets, United States. At the death of his father in 1827, Hill inherited a small fortune.
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Frederic Stanhope Hill was born in 1805, Boston, Massachussets, United States. At the death of his father in 1827, Hill inherited a small fortune.
Hill studied law, but later abandoned it.
At an early age Hill showed a slight talent for versifying, and at twenty-one he published a small volume of verse, The Harvest Festival with Other Poems (1826). Undistinguished in form and content, these poems represent his only attempt in the field of verse.
He began the publication of the Boston Lyceum, a literary journal. In 1830 he bought the Galaxy, a weekly magazine, but in a little more than a year he was forced into chancery, having lost his money in his publishing ventures.
Now, with no previous stage experience, he decided to become an actor. On March 12, 1832, he made his first appearance on the stage, playing Hotspur at the Richmond Hill Theatre, New York. On March 22, he acted Romeo to the Juliet of Mrs. Duff, and on March 30 he played Orlando in As You Like It. Having won a measure of approbation from the New York public, he returned to his native city where, on April 22, 1832, he made his début to Boston audiences at the Tremont Theatre, playing Romeo to Mrs. Barrett's Juliet. He subsequently played Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, Frederick in The Poor Gentleman, and Charles Austencourt in Man and Wife. In this same year William Pelby, a Boston producer, secured him as stage-manager for the Warren Theatre (renamed the National in 1836). Hill held this position as actor and stage-manager until 1838. In 1834 he wrote two plays which won some contemporary praise. Both were adaptations from popular French melodrama.
His first piece was named The Six Degrees of Crime; or, Wine, Women, Gambling, Theft, Murder, and the Scaffold, a melodrama in six parts. It was first played at the Warren Theatre, Boston, in January 1834, then taken to Philadelphia, where Hill made his first appearance in that city at the Arch Street Theatre, March 6, 1834, and on March 19, it was put on at the Bowery in New York. In it Hill was cast as the profligate Julio Dormilly.
His second play was The Shoemaker of Toulouse; or, the Avenger of Humble Life, an adaptation from Le Savatier de Toulouse. This four-act drama, with all the paraphernalia of melodrama, was produced at the Warren in 1834 and revived at the Tremont in 1840. For almost a score of years these two plays were stock pieces in the American theatres. After 1838 Hill had but a nominal connection with the theatre.
His health began to fail and he retired from the stage, making brief returns to acting from time to time. His last appearance was at the Howard Athenaeum (Boston) in the character of Cassio in 1851. As an actor his happiest parts were in light comedy.
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On June 7, 1828, Hill married Mary Welland Blake, and on August 4, 1829, Frederic Stanhope, their only child, was born.