Charles Bannister
Charles Bannister (
1738—
1804),
English actor and
singer, was born in
Gloucestershire, and after some amateur and provincial experience made his first London appearance in
1762 as Will in
The Orators at the
Haymarket. Gifted with a fine bass voice, Bannister acquired a reputation as a singer at Ranelagh and elsewhere, as well as an actor, and was received with such favour that Garrick engaged him for
Drury Lane. He died on the 26th of October
1804.