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Before he became famous as a tobacconist, Hardham was, by night, a numberer of the pit for Garrick at Drury Lane.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

Hardham, a native of Chichester, began life as a servant, wrote a comedy, acted, and at last became Garrick's "numberer," having a general's quick coup d'œil at gauging an audience, and so checking the money-takers.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter