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)