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Born: Established: ca. 1838 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: ca. 1846 Sydney, New South Wales,
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Joseph Wyatt and Sydney hotelier William Knight formed their partnership in 1838 to build and manage the Royal Victoria Theatre. The pair had likely been partners with four other local businessmen in leasing Barnett Levy's Theatre Royal (1836-1838). When Wyatt travelled to Great Britain in 1841 to look for actors, Knight assumed management of the theatre. The pair ran into trouble with the local industry following the arrival of the imported artists, however, and subsequently lost their theatrical monopoly when Joseph Simmons built his City Theatre. After Knight left Wyatt went into partnership his brother-in-law, Frederick Gibson.

[Source: H. L. Oppenheim. 'Wyatt, Joseph (1788-1860)' Australian Dictionary of Biography 2 (1967)].

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