Edward Shuter

Shuter was born in London to poor parents.

He made his first appearance on the London stage in 1745 in Cibber's Schoolboy. {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He made a great reputation in old men's parts.

He was the original Justice Woodcock in Love in a Village (1762), Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (1773), and Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals (1775).

He was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden.{{sfn|Knight|1897}}

His portrait as Scapin is in the Mathews collection in the Garrick Club; another portrait by Zoffany was engraved by Finlayson.{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Shuter, Edward| first=John Joseph |last=Knight| volume=52|pages=172–174}}

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Attribution:

• {{EB1911|wstitle=Shuter, Edward|volume=24|page=1024}}
• {{Cite DNB|wstitle=Shuter, Edward| first=John Joseph |last=Knight| volume=52|pages=172–174}}; Endnotes:
• Genest's Account of the English Stage
• Doran's Annals of the Stage, ed. Lowe
• Davies's Dramatick Miscellanies
• Clark Russell's Representative Actors
• Dibdin's History of the Stage
• Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, and Life of Mrs. Jordan
• O'Keeffe's Recollections
• Garrick Correspondence
• Dramatic Mirror
• Thespian Dict.
• Georgian Era
• The Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, Mr. Llwhuddwhydd, and others, the extraordinaries of these times. Collected from Zaphaniel's original papers, illustrated with copper-plates, London, 1743 [should be 1763], 12mo, a scarce work by G. A. Stevens, in imitation of Sterne's style, was aimed particularly at Shuter and Nancy Dawson; it was several times reprinted (Brit. Mus. Cat. 1785 and 1786).

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