ADDISON, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ Calcutta; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 July 1827; lieut. 15 March 1831 to 21 June 1833 when placed on half pay; began writing for the stage 1830; author of about 60 dramas and farces; lessee of Queen’s theatre London Aug. 1836–1837; wrote many songs and articles in monthly magazines; edited _Who’s Who 1849–50_; special correspondent of a morning paper at Paris exhibition 1867; deputy chairman of London steamboat company; author of about 12 novels and stories. _d._ Albion st. Hyde park, London 24 June 1876 aged 71. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xviii_, 505 (1841) _portrait_. ADDISON, JOHN (_son of John Addison of Preston, recorder of Clitheroe who d. 1837 in his 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas Batty of Avenham house, Preston_). _b._ Fishergate, Preston 21 April 1791; ed. at Blanchard’s school, Nottingham; articled with Aspden and Shuttleworth of Preston, solicitors; barrister Inner Temple 6 Feb. 1818; went northern circuit; recorder of Clitheroe 1837 to death; judge of county court number 4 circuit, Lancashire March 1847 to death; his first court was held at Blackburn 7 June 1847; presented with valuable piece of plate by registrars of his circuit 1857; alderman of Preston 25 Sep. 1832, again 27 Feb. 1846; mayor 1833 and 1843; councillor for St. John’s ward 1842. _d._ Winckley sq. Preston 14 July 1859. _bur._ St. Leonard’s ch. Balderston 20 July. ADDISON, JOSEPH (_youngest son of Rev. Wm. Addison, R. of Dinsdale, Durham_). _b._ 1789; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire and Lincoln coll. Ox., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; barrister Inner Temple 28 Jany. 1831; went northern circuit; bencher of his inn 1857. (_m._ 28 Dec. 1824 Jane 1 dau. of Thomas Beckett of Thornton le Moor near Northallerton). _d._ 7 Dean’s yard, Westminster 10 April 1858. ADDISON, LAURA, stage name of Laura Wilmshurst (_dau. of Thomas Wilmshurst of Colchester, grocer_). _b._ Colchester 15 Nov. 1822; first appeared on stage at Worcester theatre, Nov. 1843, as Lady Townley in _The provoked husband_; played at Glasgow, Dublin and Edinburgh; at Sadlers Wells theatre, London 26 Aug. 1846 to 1848; at Drury lane 26 Dec. 1849 to 1850; at the Haymarket 6 March 1851 to 31 July 1851; made her first appearance in New York, at the Broadway theatre 29 Sep. 1851, as Lady Teazle in _The school for scandal_. _d._ from congestion of the brain, on board the steamer Oregon, between Albany and New York 3 Sep. 1852, _bur._ in Second Avenue burying-ground, New York. _Theatrical Times, i_, 185 (1847) _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 23–24, _portrait_.