David Garrick
1717 – 1779
English

Actor, theatre manager, and playwright. Famous as an actor, then theater owner, he came to epitomize the English stage.

Contemporaries
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1689–1762Lady Mary Montagu
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1775–1817Jane Austen