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Charles Bannister (1738–1804) was an English actor and singer.He was born in Gloucestershire and after some amateur and provincial experience made his first London appearance in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket Theatre. Bannister had a fine bass voice and acquired a reputation as a singer at Ranelagh Gardens and elsewhere as well as an actor and was received with such favour that David Garrick engaged him for Drury Lane. He died on 26 October 1804.
