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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Ayliff, Mrs (fl. 1692–1696), singer and actress, was a leading stage and concert soprano but her forename, age, and marital status are unknown. She appears to have made her début in the première of Purcell's The Fairy Queen at Dorset Garden Theatre in May 1692, singing as a fairy ...
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Sophia Baddeley (1745?–1786) by Johan Zoffany [as Fanny Sterling, with Robert Baddeley (right) as Canton and Thomas King (centre) as Lord Ogleby, in The Clandestine Marriage by George Coleman the elder and David Garrick] Garrick Club; the art archive
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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Baddeley [née Snow], Sophia (bap. 1744, d. 1786), actress and singer, was baptized on 12 October 1744 at St Mary-at-Lambeth, the daughter of Valentine Snow (d. 1770) and his wife, Mary, and not in the parish of St Margaret, Westminster, in 1745, as stated in ...
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Bannister, Charles (bap. 1741, d. 1804), actor and singer, was baptized at some time between May and October 1741 in Newland, Gloucestershire, the son of John Bannister and his wife, Rebecca Powell. He was brought up in Deptford, where his father worked in the victualling office for the ...
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Elizabeth Bannister (1757–1849) by John Russell, 1799 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Susan Wollenberg
Bannister [née Harper], Elizabeth (1757–1849), actress and singer, was, according to the encomium in the Thespian Magazine (1793), the daughter of a Mrs Harpur, 'now a mantua-maker [dressmaker] at Bath', who, having made a marriage disapproved of by her family, educated her daughter perforce '...
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Barrington, Rutland [real name George Rutland Barrington Fleet] (1853–1922), actor and singer, was born at Penge, Surrey, on 15 January 1853. He was the fourth son of John George Fleet, a wholesale sugar dealer in Fenchurch Street, London, and his wife, Esther...
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Victoria Halliwell
Beard, John (1716/17–1791), actor and singer, of unknown parentage and place of birth, is first recorded as one of the children of the Chapel Royal. He was well educated in music under Bernard Gates, master of the children of the Chapel Royal from 1727 to 1757, and was also taught Latin, mathematics, rhetoric, and history. ...
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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Berry, Edward (1706/7–1760), actor and singer, made his first recorded appearance on the London stage at Drury Lane on 6 February 1729 as Hobinol in Charles Johnson's The Village Opera. For five seasons Berry was employed as a singing actor, primarily in the new genre of ballad opera. Unsuited by his large, heavy build and low-pitched voice for romantic leads, he played character roles such as Squire Clodpole in ...
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Charles Brayne
Blanchard, Thomas (1760–1797), actor and singer, baptized at Bulmer, Yorkshire, on 16 June 1760, was born into a theatrical family. His father, the elder Thomas Blanchard (fl. 1760–1787), was a seasoned actor who built a reputation for himself at York and Norwich...
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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Bowman, John (d. 1739), singer and actor, was said to have been born at Pillerton, Warwickshire, on 27 December 1664, the son of John Bowman. However, he was stated to be in his eighty-eighth year when he died, implying that he was born in 1651 or 1652. His early stage career indicates a birth date of ...
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Anne Bracegirdle (bap. 1671, d. 1748) by William Vincent [as Semernia, the Indian queen, in The Widow Ranter by Aphra Behn] © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bracegirdle, Anne (bap. 1671, d. 1748), actress and singer, was born in Northamptonshire, the third surviving daughter of Martha, née Furniss, and Justinian Bracegirdle, 'Coachman, Coachmaker or Letter-out of Coaches', according to her admirer Anthony Aston (Aston, 8). Family wills reveal that surviving siblings were named ...
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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Butler, Charlotte (fl. 1674–1693), actress and singer, was said to have been 'the Daughter of a decay'd Knight' and recommended to the stage by Charles II, by whom she was named (Cibber, 97). The theatre prompter John Downes remembered that she joined the ...
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Ann Cargill (c. 1760–1784) by Johan Zoffany [as Miranda in The Tempest] © reserved
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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Cargill [née Brown], Ann (c. 1760–1784), singer and actress, was the daughter of Edward Brown, a London coal merchant. She made her début as a child, singing Titania in George Colman's The Fairy Prince, with music by Arne (Covent Garden, 12 November 1771), and then played Sally, the naughty little sister, in ...
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Carleton, Billie [real name Florence Leonora Stewart] (1896–1918), actress and singer, was born on 4 September 1896 at Bernard Street, off Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, the daughter of Margaret Stewart, chorus singer; her father is unknown. She was claimed to have both French and Irish antecedents....
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Ann Catley (1745–1789) by William Evans, pubd 1807 (after William Lawranson, in or before 1777) [as Euphrosyne in Comus, music by Thomas Arne] © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Catley, Ann (1745–1789), singer and actress, was born in an alley off Tower Hill, London, the daughter of a washerwoman and a hackney coachman, Robert Catley. According to The Life and Memoirs of the Late Miss Ann Catley (1789–90) she was a pretty and sexually precocious girl who earned money singing at public houses and to officers at the ...
