Bardolph (Shakespeare character) He is sentenced to punishment of death by hanging. In a focal point of "Henry V", King Henry, despite being friends with Bardolph in his youth, remorselessly agrees to his punishment and has him hanged. Bardolph appears in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" as one of Falstaff's associates along with Nym and Pistol again, though his role is minor. Abraham Slender accuses him and the others of getting him drunk and then robbing him after he passed out. They all deny it. Later, Bardolph is dismissed by Falstaff because of his inadequate thieving skills ("his filching was like an unskilful
Abraham Wivell established in London by the society containing escape ladders on the Wivell design. Other cities also acquired Wivell's design. He resigned his position with the society in 1841 after a dispute, and moved to Birmingham, where he resumed his artistic career. In 1847 he endorsed the authenticity of the newly discovered Ashbourne portrait, which was claimed to depict Shakespeare. In 1849 he died of Bronchitis in Birmingham. Wivell was married twice and had ten children. His oldest son, also called Abraham Wivell, was also a successful painter. Abraham Wivell Abraham Wivell (1786-1849) was a British portrait painter, writer and pioneer