at drury lane wrench remained until 1815. he left drury lane that year, and divided his time between the lyceum and the country—birmingham, bristol, dublin, and other large towns. at the lyceum he was on 29 aug. 1818 the first wing in peake's ‘amateurs and actors,’ the first jenkins in ‘gretna green,’ and the first sir john freeman in ‘free and easy.’ in 1820, as captain somerville in ‘capers at canterbury,’ he made his first appearance at the adelphi, where he made perhaps his greatest success on 26 november 1821 as corinthian tom in moncrieff's ‘tom and jerry, or life in london.’