David Douglass

Douglass, David (d. 1786), manager and actor. The Englishman began his theatrical career when, at the last minute, he was selected to supervise a new company to play in Jamaica. By coincidence, a company led by Lewis Hallam Sr. was also playing on the island, so the troupes merged, Hallam died, and Douglass married Mrs. Hallam. The company came to New York in 1758, where it built a new playhouse, and soon was traveling up and down the coast playing in Philadelphia, Annapolis, Newport, and elsewhere. Douglass was not a distinguished actor (by consensus the best member of the troupe was Lewis Hallam Jr.), but he was a tactful politician and forceful businessman. His diplomacy was required because wherever he went he encountered puritanical opposition to the theatre, which he was able to overcome for a while. His business acumen helped him to arrange the construction of proper playhouses in the cities where his company played, including the Southwark in Philadelphia, the John Street in New York, and the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston. Douglass's company adopted the name The American Company as early as 1763. Under his aegis colonists were offered a large repertory of classics and new London successes, as well as the first professional mounting of a play by an American author, The Prince of Parthia (1767). He also brought to America such popular performers as Miss Cheer and John Henry. With the onset of the Revolution he returned to Jamaica, where he became a government official and died leaving an estate of £25,000.

For the eighteenth-century actor, see American Company.

For the political activist of NUM IWW and Class War, see David John Douglass.

David H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester. Douglass is a global warming skeptic whose current research focuses on natural climate forces. A 2007 study by Douglass and coworkers questioned the reliability of 22 of the most commonly used global climate models used by the IPCC to predict accelerated warming in the troposphere.^[1] However, a 2008 paper published by a 17-member team led by Ben Santer noted errors in the Douglass study, and found instead that the models and observations were not statistically different. ^[2]

Douglass is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences.

References

1. ^ "New Study Increases Concerns About Climate Model Reliability". Sciencedaily.com. 2007-12-20. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071211101623.htm. Retrieved on 2008-04-04. 
2. ^ http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121433727/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

See also

• Fred Singer
• Global warming controversy

External links

• Publications
• Home page
• Home page #2 University of Rochester, Department of Physics & Astronomy

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