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WILLIAM HENRY WEST, better known as the YOUNG ROSCIUS, an English actor, born at Shrewsbury in 1791; first appeared on the stage at the age of 11 in Belfast, and achieved an immediate success. For almost five years he sustained the heaviest parts before crowded and enthusiastic audiences. In 1805 Mr. Pitt adjourned the House of Commons to permit members to witness the boy's Hamlet. He quitted the stage as a boy actor in 1808, but after studying for a while at Cambridge, returned to it in 1812. He retired finally in 1824.
He died in London, Aug. 24, 1874.