Mr Thomas King in the character of Marplot in Susannah Centlivre’s The Busy Body, Drury Lane Theatre, 1765. King was an English actor, theatre manager and dramatist 1730–1805. Copperplate engraving 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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