Appendix: Shareholders in Covent Garden Theatre, 1733-8

Pages 109-111

Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1970.

Citation:

APPENDIX

Names of persons to whom Benjamin Hoare, Christopher Cock and John Rich assigned one fiftieth share in Covent Garden Theatre


Name of assignee	Address	Style	Signatory of Rich's 'Proposals'	Paid into Hoare's Bank £	Date of assignment of 1/50th share	M.L.R. reference	Remarks

Francis Bedwell	St. Clement Danes	ironmonger	yes	300	1 March 1732/3	1732/5/683	Signed for one share: later bought another (see below).
Sir Thomas Brand	Surbiton, Surrey	knight	yes	300	do.	1733/2/209
James, Duke of Chandos	—	—	yes	300	do.	1733/1/421
Brigadier Hon. Charles Churchill	St. George, Hanover Sq.	esquire	yes	300	do.	1733/1/435
Jane Fellowes	Red Lyon Square	widow	yes	300	do.	1732/5/681	Proposals signed by Rupert Clarke for Martin Fellowes. Assignment to his widow, Jane.
Hon. Henry Finch	St. George, Hanover Sq.	esquire	yes	300	do.	1733/4/172
William Genew	Ham, Surrey	esquire	yes	300	do.	1734/1/291
Walter Greenwood	St. George, Bloomsbury	esquire	yes	200	do.	cited in 1735/5/253	Signed for two shares, but also bought a third (see below).
Philip Hubert	St. Martin in the Fields	esquire	yes	300	do.	1732/5/682
Thomas Moore	Kensington	gentleman	yes	300	do.	1732/5/684
Edward, 9th Duke of Norfolk	—	—	yes	300	do.	1733/1/359	Thomas, 8th Duke, signed the proposals and died 23 Nov. 1732. Assignment to 9th Duke.
Richard Powell	St. James, Westminster	joiner	no	100	do.	1733/3/107	Also had two other shares (see below).
Sir William Saunderson	East Greenwich, Kent	baronet	yes	300	do.	1732/5/680	Signed for two shares (see below).
William Sharpe	Warwick St., St. James	esquire	yes	300	do.	1733/1/422
Edward Shepherd	St. George, Hanover Sq.	esquire	yes	300	do.	cited in 1741/2/287
Henry Talbot	St. George, Hanover Sq.	esquire	yes	300	do.	1732/5/744
Edward Wilson	Millbank	esquire	no	100	do.	1732/5/745
Richard Powell	St. James, Westminster	joiner	no	see above	1 May 1733	cited in 1735/4/481	Also had two other shares (see above and below).
Rupert Clarke	Lyons Inn	esquire	yes	nil	15 June 1733	1733/2/61	With Christopher Rich bought 17 shares in Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.
do.	do.	do.	yes	nil	do.	1733/2/62
Samuel Clarke	Inner Temple	gentleman	yes	nil	do.	1733/2/63
William Ann de Grave	St. James, Westminster	esquire	yes	nil	do.	1733/2/157
John Howard	Hampstead	gentleman	yes	nil	do.	1733/2/156	Proposals signed by Christopher Cock for Howard.
Walter Greenwood	St. George, Bloomsbury	esquire	yes	nil	9 July 1733	1733/2/384	Signed for two shares (see above).
do.	do.	do.	no	nil	10 July 1733	1733/2/385	His third share, unsigned for.
George Campbell	St. Martin in the Fields	goldsmith	yes	nil	1 August 1733	1733/3/100
James de la Creuze	St. Martin in the Fields	gentleman	yes	nil	do.	1733/3/102
Edward Ravenell	St. Martin in the Fields	esquire	yes	nil	do.	1733/3/101
Philip Mercier	Bury Street, St. James	esquire	no	nil	13 August 1733	1733/3/103
Charles Fleetwood	St. Marylebone	esquire	no	nil	6 September 1733	1733/3/108
Christian Frederick Zincke	St. Paul, Covent Garden	gentleman	yes	nil	21 September 1733	1733/3/218
Sir William Saunderson	East Greenwich, Kent	baronet	yes	nil	21 April 1734	1734/1/319	Signed for two shares (see above).
Thomas Holt	Rochford Hall, Suffolk	esquire	no	nil	1 May 1734	not found	Assignment in Bedford Office.
Jane Wakefield	St. James, Westminster	widow	yes	nil	28 May 1734	1734/1/466
do.	do.	do.	yes	nil	do.	1734/1/467
Francis Bedwell	St. Clement Danes	ironmonger	no	nil	8 June 1734	1734/2/75	Also signed for another share (see above).
Richard Powell	St. James, Westminster	carpenter (sic)	no	nil	do.	1734/2/52	Also had two other shares (see above).
Thomas Wood	Little Britain, London	stationer	yes	nil	4 September 1734	1734/4/274
Henry Collins	St. James, Westminster	esquire	yes	nil	- September 1734	cited in 1746/1/543	Also owned three shares in Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.
do.	do.	do.	yes	nil	-September 1734	cited in 1746/1/544
Hon. John Cope	St. George, Hanover Sq.	esquire	no	nil	26 September 1734	1734/4/293
Charles Hale	St. George the Martyr	esquire	yes	nil	do.	1737/4/108	Signed for two shares, but probably bought only one. Also owned one share in Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.
Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lennox	—	—	yes	nil	do.	1735/3/465
William Samber	Lyons Inn	gentleman	no	nil	do.	1737/4/374	Also owned two shares in Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.
John Paul Yvonnett	St. Anne, Westminster	esquire	yes	nil	do.	1734/5/63
William Workman	St. Andrew, Holborn	gentleman	yes	300	not known	cited in 1747/1/9	Signed proposals, and owned a share 1744.
Stephen de la Creuze	St. Martin's Lane	gentleman	no	nil	26 January 1737/8	1737/5/396	Edward Shepherd was a consenting party to this assignment.
Robert Knight	Barnells, Warwickshire	esquire	yes	400	not known	not found	Signed for one share, but in 1744 owned two.
do.	do.	do.	yes	400