SEFTON, John, actor, born in Liverpool, England, 15 January, 1805; died in New York city, 19 September, 1868. He began the study of law, but preferring the stage, entered upon his professional career at the age of sixteen. He came to this country in 1827, played for two seasons at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, and gained great popularity in New York as Jemmy Twitcher in the "Golden Farmer." He was stage-manager at the Astor place opera-house during the Macready riot, and afterward held the same post at Richmond, at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, at Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, and at New Orleans, Louisiana His last appearance was at the Broadway theatre in October, 1867. In certain comic parts he had no superior either in this country or in England.