Walstein

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Walstein 26.1.1800 at John King's

German regiment of Walstein to West Indies (Telegraph 13.8.1796). Count Walstein in Fashionable News (Morning Post 23.4.1805 & others 1806 -7). Ferdinand Ernst Graf Waldstein 1762-1823 was in English military service from about 1795 till 1805 and remained in England for some years afterwards, best known as a composer and patron of music to whom Beethoven dedicated a sonata (Constant von Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon vol 51-2 p 231). He acted in private theatricals with the family of the ambassador Count Starhemberg at Twickenham in 1802 and 1803. Josef Karl Emanuel Graf von Waldstein 1755-1814 was his older brother and a patron of Casanova whom he made his librarian: another brother was a botanist but no mention of their having been in England. Eliza Walstein (Morning Herald 18.7.1800) a pupil of the singer Maria Dickons DNB c1774-1833 (nee Poole - she married Dickons at Liverpool in 1800) and said to have been a niece of the playwright Kotzebue, made her tragic debut as Calista at Liverpool 11.7.1800, then acted in Edinburgh till 1803, moved to Dublin and acted mostly in Ireland till 1820, with a season in London in 1814 during which she returned to Dublin as her mother was dying. Thomas Walstein Esq of Lower Mount St Dublin subscribed £3 to the O'Connell Fund 14.1.1831