Mr Conrad Theodore Knowles

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Contributor Mr Conrad Theodore Knowles
Gender Male
Nationality English / Australian
Date of Birth 1810
Date of Death 19 May 1844
Place Of Death Melbourne
Functions Actor, Adaptor, Administrator, Artistic Supervisor, Dancer, Director, General Manager, Playwright, Speaker, Actor and Singer
Notes Born London, England, 22 August 1810; baptised Waterloo St. Wesleyan Chapel, Hammersmith, 23 September 1810, son of John and Eliza KNOWLES Arrived Hobart Town, VDL (TAS), 11 April 1830 (per Wanstead, from London, and Swan River colony, 19 March) Arrived ? Sydney, NSW, 10 September 1832 (per Harlequin, from Launceston, TAS, 25 August). Knowles had a sound classical education and some legal training. Without any theatrical training or experience Knowles took a leading position amongst the performers when Barnett Levey opened his Theatre Royal in December 1832. During the first season he called himself Mr Cooper. The next year he was acting manager. Knowles was a firm favourite with Sydney audiences, he was Sydney's first Romeo, Othello and Shylock and Australia's first Hamlet and King Lear. Critics praised his deep voice, his figure and personal appearance.
Related Contributors
  • Also known as Mr Cooper (Actor, Singer, Actor and Singer. Event Dates: 1832 - 1833)
  • Also known as Mr Knowles (Actor, Actor-Manager)
  • Is spouse of Harriet Jones (Actor, Actor and Singer. Event Dates: 1842)
Events

Actor

Director

Actor and Singer

Artistic Supervisor

Speaker

Adaptor

General Manager

Playwright

Dudderidge - Actor, Scenic Artist

Fitchett - Actor, Mechanist, Scenic Artist

William Cavendish - Musical Director, Stage Director, Stage Manager

Aldred - Costume Co-ordinator, Costume Maker

Allen - Properties Master/Mistress

Clarke - Mechanist

John Edwards - Conductor

George Sippe - Orchestral Leader

George Buckingham - Actor, Actor and Singer

Love - Actor, Dancer

Daniel Grove - Actor, Actor and Singer

Vale - Actor

Frederick White - Actor, Dancer

Dawes - Actor

James Dyball - Actor

Mary Ann Larra - Actor

Edward Dight - Actor

John Meredith - Actor, Actor and Singer, Entrepreneur

Eliza Winstanley - Actor

Clement Peat - Actor, Actor and Singer

Barnett Levey - Actor-Manager, Entrepreneur, Lessee

Joseph Simmons - Actor, Actor and Singer, Entrepreneur

Angus Mackay - Actor

Downes - Actor, Actor and Singer

Arthur Hill - Actor

Harriett Jones - Actor, Actor and Singer

Frances Mackay - Actor

Angus Mackie - Actor

Palmer - Actor

Cordelia Cameron - Actor

Collins - Actor

George Colman - Playwright

Coveney - Actor

Johnson - Actor

Maria Taylor - Actor, Actor and Singer

Belmore - Entrepreneur, Head Mechanist, Mechanist

Marian Chester - Actor, Actor and Singer

  • The Poor Soldier, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 25 April 1836
  • Benefit, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836
  • Rendezvous, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836

Charles Harpur - Actor

Douglas Jerrold - Playwright

Jones - Actor

Lee - Actor

Partridge - Actor

John Till Allingham - Playwright

  • Fortune's Frolic, The Long Room, Nash's Woolpack Inn, Parramatta, NSW, 24 July 1833
  • Fortune's Frolic, Saloon of the Royal Hotel (1832-1840), Sydney, NSW, 31 December 1832

Henry Bishop - Composer

Mr Blair - Actor

Martha Bland - Actor

Samson Cameron - Actor

Anne Clarke - Actor

Croft - Actor

Fenton - Actor

Fitzgerald - Actor

Hollis - Actor

Jacobs - Actor

Knowles - Actor

John Howard Payne - Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Playwright, Translator

  • Pizarro, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 19 January 1835
  • The Rivals, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1833

George Simes - Actor

Frances Weston - Actor

  • Fortune's Frolic, The Long Room, Nash's Woolpack Inn, Parramatta, NSW, 24 July 1833
  • Fortune's Frolic, Saloon of the Royal Hotel (1832-1840), Sydney, NSW, 31 December 1832

Gustavus Arabin - Actor

William Barnes Rhodes - Playwright

S Birch - Playwright

Braham - Actor and Singer

Buck - Actor

C Cameron - Actor

Henry Carey - Playwright

Susanna Centlivre - Playwright

René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt - Playwright

Thomas John Dibdin - Playwright

  • What Next?, Saloon of the Royal Hotel (1832-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 March 1833

Ellen Douglass - Actor

  • Benefit, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836

Arthur Falchon - Actor

David Garrick - Playwright

  • The Lying Valet, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 25 November 1833

Gautrot - Actor

Gordon - Actor

Grove - Actor

Thomas Holcroft - Adaptor

Avonia Jones - Actor

Harriet Jones - Actor

Laverty - Actor

  • What Next?, Saloon of the Royal Hotel (1832-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 March 1833

Victoria Lazar - Actor

Leggatt - Conductor

Mackey - Actor

  • Rendezvous, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836

William Macready - Playwright

Amelia Meredith - Actor and Singer

Arthur Murphy - Playwright

Francis Nesbitt - Actor

Eliza O'Flaherty - Actor

Isaac Pocock - Playwright

Richard John Raymond - Playwright

Riley - Actor

William Shakespeare - Playwright

Thomas Simes - Actor and Singer

Simms - Actor

  • Benefit, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836

Albert Spencer - Actor

  • Benefit, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836

Taylor - Actor and Singer

Thomson - Actor

Thomson - Actor

John Tobin - Playwright

  • The Honey Moon, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 19 October 1833

James Townley - Playwright

August von Kotzebue - Playwright

  • Pizarro, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 19 January 1835

Wallace - Actor

Spencer Wallace - Conductor, Musician

Warne - Actor

Barnett Levey [sole entrepreneur]

Barnett Levey's Theatre Royal

John Meredith [sole entrepeneur]

Joseph Simmons and William Knight [partnership]

  • Rendezvous, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836
  • Benefit, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 23 April 1836

Barnett Levey and Joseph Simmons [partnership]

  • Pizarro, Theatre Royal (1833-1840), Sydney, NSW, 19 January 1835

Joseph Wyatt [sole entrepreneur]

Resources
  • Advertisement:  Advertising (1836, April 23), The Sydney Monitor, 23 April 1836, 3
  • Advertisement:  Advertising , The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), 18 April 1839, 3
  • Advertisement:  Advertising , The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), 8 June 1839, 3
  • Advertisement:  Advertising , The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), 7 June 1839, 3
  • Advertisement:  Advertising, Bent's News and New South Wales Advertiser (Sydney, NSW : 1, 8 June 1839, 1
  • Advertisement:  Advertising, Commercial Journal and Advertiser (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 184, 17 April 1839, 3
  • Advertisement:  Classified Advertising , The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 18, 8 June 1839, 3
  • Advertisement:  Conrad Knowles, Advertising , The Sydney Monitor, Edward Smith Hall, Sydney, NSW., National Library of Australia, IX, 968, 9 December 1836, 3
  • Advertisement:  Conrad Knowles, Classified Advertising , The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, G. Howe, Sydney, NSW., National Library of Australia, XXXIV, 2905, 31 December 1836, 3
  • Article:  AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, The Sydney Herald, 7 October 1833, 2
  • Article:  Joseph Michael Forde, ANNALS OF THE TURF AND OTHER PASTIMES IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND ELSEWHERE, No. LVI., Sydney Sportsman, 8 June 1904, 8
  • Article:  THEATRICALS. (1835, February 13)., The Australian, 13 February 1835, 2
  • Book:  Kath Leahy, Lords and Larrikins: The Actor's Role in the Making of Australia, Currency House, Sydney, 2009
  • Law Report:  Supreme Court of New South Wales, Hayes v Soloman [1835] NSWSupC 20 (18 March 1835), Australasian Legal Information Institute, 18 March 1835
  • Letter:  Original Correspondence. Theatre, The Sydney Herald, 12 June 1834, 2
Works
Data Set AusStage
Contributor Identifier 260386