• Name: Macready, William Charles
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 3  March  1793
• Death Date: 27  April  1873
• Occupation: actor
• Occupation: theatre manager

Macready was a successful tragic actor and theatre manager at both Drury Lane and Covent Garden.

Most of the contacts could conceivably be referring instead to Macready's father, William Macready (1755-1829), also an actor and theatre manager. But there are a few meetings after his death without differentiation and the entry on 21 March 1821, 'M and T T call, and Macready (Ric. III):', indicates the younger Macready, who acted in the Covent Garden production of Richard III that restored much of the original text in the same month.

• Examiner, 11 March 1821
• DNB
• The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-1851, ed. by William Toynbee (London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1912)

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