Benjamin Husband
# Benjamin Husband

Benjamin Husband was a British stage actor of the eighteenth century. His surname is sometimes written as Husbands.

Reportedly born in Pembrokeshire in 1672, he was a member of the Lincolns Inn Fields and Drury Lane companies during the 1700s. He was later in Dublin as part of the Smock Alley Theatre organisation. When he had a benefit there in 1746, he was described as the oldest living actor.

## Selected roles

* Tyranges in The Double Distress by Mary Pix (1701)
* Zama in Tamerlane by Nicholas Rowe (1702)
* Alphonso in All for the Better by Francis Manning (1702)
* Richemore in The Twin Rivals by George Farquhar (1702)
* Lorenzo in The Patriot by Charles Gildon (1702)
* Don Philip in She Would and She Would Not by Colley Cibber (1702)
* Albovade in The Faithful Bride of Granada by William Taverner (1704)
* Viceroy in The Revolution of Sweden by Catharine Cockburn (1706)
* Bellmour in Adventures in Madrid by Mary Pix (1706)
* Offa in The Royal Convert by Nicholas Rowe (1707)
* Lovely in The Man's Bewitched by Susanna Centlivre (1709)
* Valerius in Appius and Virginia by John Dennis (1709)
* Catesby in Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe (1714)
