Sullivan, BARRY, tragedian, born at Birmingham in 1824, first appeared at Cork in 1840, played at Edinburgh and elsewhere, and at the Haymarket in London as Hamlet in February 1852. He visited America in 1857-60, and Australia in 1861-66. He was afterwards for a while lessee of the Holborn Theatre; but he was more popular in the provinces, especially in Ireland and the west of England. He died at Brighton, 3d May 1891.
Sullivan, BARRY
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