Edward Shuter (c. 1728–1776) was an English actor. Life Shuter was born in London to poor parents. He made his first appearance on the London stage in 1745 in Cibber's Schoolboy. He made a great reputation in old men's parts. He was the original Justice Woodcock in Love in a Village (1762), Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (1773), and Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals (1775). He was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Portraits His portrait as Scapin is in the Mathews collection in the Garrick Club; another portrait by Zoffany was engraved by Finlayson. References Attribution: ; Endnotes: Genest's Account of the English Stage Doran's Annals of the Stage, ed. Lowe Davies's Dramatick Miscellanies Clark Russell's Representative Actors Dibdin's History of the Stage Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, and Life of Mrs. Jordan O'Keeffe's Recollections Garrick Correspondence Dramatic Mirror Thespian Dict. Georgian Era The Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, Mr. Llwhuddwhydd, and others, the extraordinaries of these times. Collected from Zaphaniel's original papers, illustrated with copper-plates, London, 1743 [should be 1763], 12mo, a scarce work by G. A. Stevens, in imitation of Sterne's style, was aimed particularly at Shuter and Nancy Dawson; it was several times reprinted (Brit. Mus. Cat. 1785 and 1786). 1728 births 1776 deaths English male stage actors 18th-century English male actors