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Knowles was born on 12 May 1784 at Cork. His father was the lexicographer, James Knowles (1759 - 1840), cousin- german of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Knowles was born on 12 May 1784 at Cork. His father was the lexicographer, James Knowles (1759 - 1840), cousin- german of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
He served for some time in the Wiltshire and afterwards in the Tower Hamlets militia, leaving the service to become pupil of Dr Robert Willan (1757 - 1812).
He obtained the degree of M. D. , and was appointed vaccinator to the Jennerian Society.
The boy's talents secured him the friendship of Hazlitt, who introduced him to Lamb and Coleridge.
Although, however, Dr W'illan generously offered him a share in his practice, he resolved to forsake medicine for the stage, making his first appearance probably at Bath, and playing Hamlet at the Crow Theatre, Dublin.
His first important success was Caius Gracchus, produced at Belfast in 1815; and his Virginius, written for Edmund Kean, was first performed in 1820 at Covent Garden.
In William Tell (1825) Macready found one of his favourite parts.
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(James Sheridan Knowles was an Irish dramatist and actor.)
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Knowles had always had strongly religious and philanthropic interests, and had in early days been greatly impressed by the preaching of Rowland Hill at the Surrey Chapel.
In his later years he forsook the stage for the pulpit, and as a Baptist preacher attracted large audiences at Exeter Hall and elsewhere.
He published two polemical works-the Rock of Rome and the Idol Demolished by its own Priests-in both of which he combated the special doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.
At Wexford he married, in October 1809, Maria Charteris, an actress from the Edinburgh Theatre.