Amherst, J. H
actor, dramatist, was born in 1776 in London, England. He came to the United States in 1838 as director of Cook's equestrian company; and first acted as the Castilian in Mazeppa in Philadelphia. He was an accomplished classical scholar, and the author of several plays, of which the following are the best known: Will Watch, or the Black Phantom; Napoleon Bonaparte's Invasion of Russia, or the Conflagration of Moscow; Ireland as It Was; The Battle of Waterloo; and Ireland as It Is. He died Aug. 12, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.