His father died on 11 December 1757, leaving Theophilus just £50 in his will, and the following day Theophilus wrote to the Lord Chamberlain, the Duke of Newcastle, asking for work in a theatre.
Coxeter's manuscript collections were largely used in Theophilus Cibber's Lives of the Poets and in Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry.
Theophilus | Theophilus Presbyter | Colley Cibber | Theophilus Parsons | Theophilus Waldmeier | Theophilus Shepstone | Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk | Theophilus Cibber | Theophilus Cazenove | Theophilus Pinches | Theophilus Oglethorpe | Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon | Theophilus Danzy | Theophilus Adam Wylie | John Theophilus Desaguliers | William Theophilus Dortch | Theophilus Weeks | Theophilus Van Kannel | Theophilus of Adana | Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon | Theophilus (emperor) | Theophilus Eaton | Theophilus Danjuma | Theophilus Browne | Susannah Maria Cibber | Henry Theophilus Finck | Harry Theophilus Toulmin | Caius Gabriel Cibber |
27 October - The ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber, the actor, and (probably) the Irish mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.
27 October - The ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber (the English actor, bound for a season at the Smock Alley Theatre), and (probably) the mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.
Susannah Maria Cibber, English singer and actress; wife of Theophilus Cibber