The Angel Inn the Anglo-Irish actress Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), who became the mistress and companion of the future King William IV. Thornton was "a man with flair but with no eye for detail [and] little patience with learning lines, a habit which spread to members of his company." James Winston, in his "The Theatric Tourist" (1805), relates how, just before one performance at Andover, Thornton noticed someone in the audience holding a copy of that evening's play. Winston writes: "With such a potent evidence of their incorrectness, it was impossible to proceed..." Thornton announced that the performance was cancelled, owing to the troupe's
Dorothea Johnson with female Methodists but she was singled out by John Wesley as the cause of the healthy state of Methodism in Lisburn the year after they married. Johnson died a widow in Lisburn on 25 July 1817 having spent 14 years leading the congregation and still steadfast in her beliefs. She was buried with her husband in Lambeg churchyard. Her "Memoirs" which she had begun in 1771 were published in 1818. Dorothea Johnson Dorothea Johnson or Dorothea Garrat; Dorothea King (4 December 1732 – 23 July 1817) was an Irish Methodist leader in Lisburn. Johnson was born in Dublin in