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 and 1856 at the Britannia Saloon, where they had long runs; and ‘Waiting for the Verdict,’ first given at the City of London Theatre. Hazlewood wrote mainly for the Britannia and Pavilion Theatres, and is said to have been paid at the rate of about fifty shillings an act, with something extra for a very successful piece. He died at 44 Huntingdon Street, Haggerston, London, on 31 May 1875, aged 52, leaving two children, a son, Henry Colin Hazlewood (lessee and manager of the Star Theatre, Wolverhampton), and a daughter.

The following pieces by Hazlewood were printed in T. H. Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays:’ No. 161, ‘Going to Chobham. A Farce,’ City of London Theatre, 1853; No. 371, ‘Jessie Vere,’ 1856; No. 467, ‘Jenny Foster,’ 1855; No. 479, ‘The Marble Bride,’ magical drama, Britannia Saloon; No. 620, ‘The Chevalier of the Maison Rouge,’ drama, 1859; No. 744, ‘The House on the Bridge of Notre Dame,’ drama, Marylebone Theatre, 1861; No. 822, ‘The Harvest Storm,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1862; No. 850, ‘The Heart of Midlothian,’ drama, adjusted by C. Hazlewood, 1863; No. 856, ‘Aurora Floyd,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1863; No. 954, ‘The Mother's Dying Child,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1863; No. 1039, ‘Clock on the Stairs,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1862; No. 1047, ‘Capitola, or the Masked Mother and the Hidden Hand,’ drama, City of London Theatre, 1860; No. 1145, ‘Poul a Dhoil, or the Fairy Man,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1865; No. 1268, ‘Hop Pickers and Gipsies,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1869; No. 1300, ‘Lizzie Lyle, or the Flower Makers of Finsbury,’ drama, Grecian Theatre, 1869; No. 1381, ‘The Lost Wife, or a Husband's Confession,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1871; No. 1437, ‘Leave it to Me,’ a farce, with Arthur Williams, Surrey Theatre, 1870; No. 1473, ‘Waiting for the Verdict, or Falsely Accused,’ drama, City of London Theatre, 1859; No. 1543, ‘Mary Edmondstone,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1862; No. 1557, ‘The Staff of Diamonds,’ drama, Surrey Theatre, 1861; No. 1575, ‘The Stolen Jewess,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1872; No. 1583, ‘Ashore and Afloat,’ drama, Surrey Theatre, 1864; No. 1588, ‘Taking the Veil, or the Harsh Stepfather,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1870; No. 1591, ‘The Bridal Wreath,’ drama, City of London Theatre, 1861; No. 1601, ‘The Bitter Reckoning,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1871; No. 1603, ‘The Headless Horseman,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1865; No. 1611, ‘For Honour's Sake,’ drama, Britannia Theatre, 1873; No. 1633, ‘Jessamy's Courtship,’ a farce, Philharmonic Theatre, 1875; Supplement No. 3, ‘Lady Audley's Secret,’ drama, Victoria Theatre, 1863; Supplement No. 16, ‘Never too Late to Mend,’ drama, Marylebone Theatre, 1859. Other of his pieces had considerable popularity, viz.: ‘Mary Price,’ ‘Phillis Thorpe,’ ‘Jerry Abershaw,’ ‘Lilla, the Lost One,’ ‘Our Tea Party,’ ‘The Black Gondola,’ ‘Trials of Poverty,’ ‘Blanche and Perrinette,’ ‘The Eagle's Nest,’ ‘Lost Evidence,’ ‘The Jewess of the Temple,’ ‘The Traitor's Track,’ ‘Life for a Life,’ ‘The Forlorn Hope,’ ‘Happiness at Home,’ ‘Cast Aside,’ ‘Aileen Asthore,’ ‘The Lightning Flash,’ ‘A French Girl's Love,’ and ‘Inez Danton.’



HAZLITT, WILLIAM (1778–1830), essayist, born on 10 April 1778, was the son of William Hazlitt (1737–1820) and grandson of John Hazlitt, an Irish protestant, originally of Antrim, settled at Shrone Hill, near Tipperary. William Hazlitt, the father, studied at Glasgow for five years, where he was a contemporary of Adam Smith, joined the presbyterian ministry, and ultimately became a unitarian. He was chosen minister at Wisbeach in 1764; at Marshfield, Gloucestershire, in 1766; at Maidstone in 1770–1, where he frequently met Dr. Franklin; and at Bandon, co. Cork, in 1780. In 1783 he sailed to America, and was for fifteen months at Philadelphia, where, in addition to preaching, he delivered a course of lectures in the college on the evidences of Christianity. He is said to have founded the first unitarian church in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1786–7 he returned, and settled at Wem in Shropshire, and while there published three volumes of sermons. In 1766 he married Grace Loftus, daughter of a farmer near Wisbeach. Their first child, John, was born at Marshfield in 1767; their daughter, Peggy, at the same place; and William in Mitre Lane, Maidstone. The elder Hazlitt retired from the ministry, moved to Addlestone, Surrey, in 1813, afterwards to Bath, and finally to Crediton, where he died on 16 July 1820 (cf., Hist. of Presbyterian and General Baptist Church in West of England, p. 45).

William went with his parents to America, and was educated chiefly in his father's house at Wem. Early letters to his family indicate a very precocious intellect. In 1791 the ‘Shrewsbury Chronicle’ inserted a letter from him upon the persecution of Priestley at Birmingham. At the age of fifteen he was sent to the unitarian college at Hackney to prepare for the ministry. He had already written (in 1792) ‘A Project for a New Theory of Criminal and Civil Legislation,’ suggested by a dispute about the Test Acts;