William Mountfort English

England

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 actor

Actor

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 and dramatic writer, was the son of a Staffordshire

Staffordshire

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 gentleman.

His first stage appearance was with the Dorset Garden company about 1678, and by 1682 he was taking important parts, usually those of the fine gentleman

Gentleman

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. Mountfort wrote a number of plays, wholly or in part, and many prologues and epilogues. He married, in 1686, Susanna Percival

Susanna Verbruggen

Susanna Verbruggen , aka Susanna Mountfort, was an English actress working in London. Her first recorded stage appearance may have been as early as 1681 in D'Urfey's Sir Barnaby Whig...

, the actress.

Owing to jealousy of Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle's

Anne Bracegirdle

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 supposed interest in Mountfort, Captain Richard Hill, an adventurer, who had annoyed her with persistent attentions, accompanied by Charles Mohun

Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun

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, 4th Baron Mohun

Baron Mohun

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 ambushed Mountfort in Howard Street, Strand

Strand, London

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, on 9 December 1692. During the struggle Mountfort was stabbed in the chest by Hill, he died of his wounds the following day. Following the attack Hill fled to France

France

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. Lord Mohun was tried by his peers and acquitted by a vote of 69 to 14.