George Selth Coppin

George Selth Coppin was a comic actor, entrepreneur and politician, active in Australia.

Coppin was born at Steyning, Sussex, England, son of George Selth Coppin and Elizabeth Jane, ne Jackson. His grandfather had been a wellknown clergyman at Norwich. George Selth Coppin Senior, studied for the medical profession but abandoned this to go join a group of travelling actors. George Coppin Junior became an assistant in his fathers company, George and his sister performed their own act by 1826. At the age ofCoppin had an engagement at the Woolwich theatre, and soon afterwards was playing at Richmond, where he became low comedian at a salary of twentyfive shillings a week. He next obtained an engagement at the Queens Theatre, London, and in subsequent years played as first low comedian in the provinces and at Abbey Street theatre, Dublin, where he had a long acting engagement. There Coppin met Maria Watkins Burroughs, nine years older than Coppin. They lived together from 1842 to 1848.

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