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on 22 November 1850. He practised as a barrister till 1876, when for financial reasons he took work as a professional reciter, and became a popular performer. He had amateur experience to build on with the
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Brandram died at 6 Bentinck Street, Cavendish Square, London, on 7 November 1892. He was buried three days later in Richmond cemetery.
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Brandram's Speaker: a Set of Pieces in Prose and Verse suitable for Recitation, with an Introductory Essay on Elocution
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Born in London on 8 October 1824, he was the only son of William Caldwell Brandram. He was educated at
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Selected Plays of Shakspeare, abridged for the use of the Young
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Brandram's theories on the brisk speaking of Shakespearian
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among others. He gave whole or almost complete plays of
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People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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Merchant Taylors' School
King's College School
Trinity College, Oxford
Frank Talfourd
Henley Regatta
Lincoln's Inn
called to the bar
Canterbury Old Stagers
Albert Richard Smith
Edmund Yates
Shakespeare
Sheridan
dramatic verse
William Poel
Charles Kean





Lee, Sidney
"Brandram, Samuel" 
Dictionary of National Biography
James Granville Adderley
archive.org.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/35553
UK public library membership
The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare

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