Mr Robert Bensley in the character of Busiris in Edward Young’s Busiris. However, the play was not performed in London during his career. Bensley was an 18th-century English actor, 1740-1817. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1777.

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