Robert Roxby

Robert Roxby (c. 1809 – 25 July 1866) was an English actor and stage manager.

Life Roxby was a son of William Roxby Beverley, an actor-manager who was for a time manager of the theatre in Tottenham Street in London. The actor Henry Roxby Beverley and the scene-painter William Roxby Beverley were his brothers.

After performing in provincial theatres, Roxby appeared in London in 1839 at St James's Theatre, under the management of John Hooper. In 1843, at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, he played many leading parts in comedy. He was for some years in London at the Lyceum or at Drury Lane, and was during eleven years stage manager at Drury Lane.

Critic's assessment The drama critic Joseph Knight wrote: "Roxby was a capable stage manager and, in spite of some hardness of style and weakness of voice, a respectable actor in light-comedy parts.