George Mattocks

George Mattocks, also known as George Maddox, (1734 or 1735 – August 14, 1804) was a British stage actor and operatic tenor.

Life and career George Mattocks was born in England in either 1734 or 1735. Originally billed as George Maddox when he started at Drury Lane he soon altered the spelling of his name and was a regular member of the company from 1749 to 1752, also appearing at Richmond Theatre. At Drury Lane he notably created the role of Palaemon the premiere of William Boyce’s The Chaplet (1749). In 1762 he was featured as Rimenes in the premiere of Thomas Arne's opera Artaxerxes, and that same year performed the role of Thomas Meadows in the premiere of Arne's Love in a Village. He also created roles in the premieres of Samuel Arnold's The Maid of the Mill (1765, as Lord Aimsworth) and Don Ferdinand in The Duenna (1775). A year later, he bought half of Plymouth's Franfkford Gate Theatre and managed it until 1763. This was where he hired John and Ann Barrington as well the actress Isabella Hallam, who grew up with their family.

In 1765, he married actress and opera singer Isabella Hallam, who was afterwards billed Isabella Mattocks. Mattocks had his first acting appearance in Liverpool at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1767.

One of his final parts at Covent Garden was in John O'Keeffe's The Castle of Andalusia in 1782.

Mattocks died in Edinburgh on August 14, 1804.