Theatre Heritage Australia

... urne’s Astley's Amphitheatre closed less than a year after opening. In 1855, George Selth Coppin (1819-1906), actor-manager and entrepreneur, leased the building as the Royal Amphitheatre, which, finally ...

George Coppin, New York, 1865. Photo by Charles D. Fredericks. George Selth Coppin Papers, State Library of Victoria, MS8827/13/217 April 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Selth ...

... On stage in USA, Australia and England from1860s. Arrived Australia in 1874 under engagement to George Coppin. Went to found Australia’s most important theatrical companies, J.C. Williamson Ltd. Riley/Hailes ...

... Marie Braybrooke Henderson (actress), 28 September 1865, (2) Georgina Harriet Dora Coppin, 3 October 1907. Died 16 December 1912, Sydney, NSW, Australia. On stage in England, USA, Australia and New Zealand ...

... for George Coppin in 1863. See also Emigrant in Motley: The Journey of Charles and Ellen Kean. Riley/Hailes Scrapbook, pages 168, 169, 191. ...

... co-lessee with Coppin and others. Riley/Hailes Scrapbook, page 175. ...

... in Australia from 1854. Noted low comedian and manager of Theatre Royal in Melbourne in partnership with Coppin and Hennings. Riley/Hailes Scrapbook, page 177. ...

English actor, manager & theatre owner. Né George Selth Coppin. Born 8 April 1819, Steyning, Sussex, England. Son of George Selth Coppin and Elizabeth Jane Jackson. Married (1) Maria Watkins Burroughs ...

... Liverpool, England. Died 11 January 1866, at sea. On stage in England and Australia. Performing in Australia, 1855-1861. Business partner of George Coppin. Riley/Hailes Scrapbook, pages 21, 32, 165, ...

... during a radio interview. The then owner’s occupation was clearing deceased estates, in this case a former resident of the Old Colonists Homes in North Fitzroy, founded by George Coppin and others. After ...

... ening of George Coppin's Olympic (the Iron Pot) in Exhibition Street. One year later, Black "went bankrupt" and was forced to sell the theatre - for about one quarter of the cost of building it. Actor-man ...

... ly two months after the theatre's opening - its director George Selth Coppin) . Given the temperature, this walk may well have been more than a little trying.... Another building in the vicinity, St. ...

... photos and memorabilia from the SLV's George Selth Coppin Manuscript Collection by theatre historians Mimi Colligan and Elisabeth Kumm. These items had been in the possession of George Selth Coppin's daugh ...

... Irish tragedian Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, born in 1818, died when the ship London sank in the Bay of Biscay in January 1866. He was returning to Australia under contract to George Coppin, who had engaged ...

... en as Supreme Court from 20 October 1843. But things were changing next door… George Coppin, Melbourne’s best known entrepreneur and developer, arrived in 1846 and arranged for the billiard hall of the T ...

... aise. The family’s tour of the United States was cut short when George Coppin requested they return home to appear in Walch’s pantomime Sinbad the Sailor. won the hearts of the Australian public. An e ...

... hall was enlarged and a small gallery constructed. The area on the right, became a library. George Coppin’s Lancashire Bellringers were a crowd-pleaser at the School of Arts in 1863 and 1864, and Coppin ...

... Lonsdale Streets. Rather historic theatrical stamping ground this, for on that very spot George Coppin built the Olympic, the famous ‘Iron Pot’ theatre, where G.V. Brooke himself was wont to fret his hour ...

... Herald, The Evening Standard and The Argus ridiculed both the WCTU women and Dr Smith with headlines such as * Old English Fairs On a more popular level, George Coppin, parliamentarian and actormanager, ...

... rge Coppin’s management, also began a season at the Salle on 8 January 1856. James Ellis, now apparently recovered from his fiscal hardships, had resumed proprietorship of the Salle by mid-April 1856 ...