Bicknell [née Younger], Margaret (1681–1723), actress and dancer, was born on 11 November 1681 in Edinburgh, the daughter of James Younger, a soldier, and his wife, Margaret Keith. Both of her parents were born in Scotland. She was the elder sister of the actress and dancer ...
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Bicknell [née Younger], Margaret (1681–1723), actress and dancer
Moira Goff
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Booth, Hester (c. 1690–1773)
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Hester Booth (c. 1690–1773) by John Ellys private collection. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Booth [née Santlow], Hester (c. 1690–1773), actress and dancer
Moira Goff
Booth [née Santlow], Hester (c. 1690–1773), actress and dancer, was born about 1690. Very little is known about her parents and family background, although her mother, Jane (or Joanna), died in April 1724. She was apprenticed to the dancing-master René Cherrier, probably in 1704, and made her début as a dancer at ...
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Bulkley [née Wilford; other married name Barrisford], Mary (1747/8?–1792), dancer and actress
John Levitt
Bulkley [née Wilford; other married name Barrisford], Mary (1747/8
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See Cary, Anne [name in religion Clementia]
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Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946)
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Connie Gilchrist (1865–1946), by W. & D. Downey, 1886–1887
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Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946), artist’s model, dancer, and actress
Eilidh Innes
Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946), artist’s model, dancer, and actress, was born at 18 Winchester Street, Agar Town, London, on 23 January 1865, the youngest of five daughters of David Gilchrist (1818–1868...
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Poitier [married names Vernon, Thompson], Jane Henrietta (b. 1736, d. in or after 1788), singer and dancer
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Poitier [married names Vernon, Thompson], Jane Henrietta (b. 1736, d. in or after 1788), singer and dancer, was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 8 June 1736, the daughter of the French theatre dancer Michael Poitier (d...
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Priest, Josias (d. 1734/5), dancer and boarding-school proprietor
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
Priest, Josias (d. 1734/5), dancer and boarding-school proprietor, was almost certainly a performer on the London stage from at least 1667, when Mr Priest danced a ‘Tony’, or fool, in act v of Dryden's comedy Sir Martin Mar-All and the end of the play was '...
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Weaver, John (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
Leslie du S. Read
Weaver, John (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer, the son of John Weaver (d. 1701) and his wife, Anne (d. 1721), was baptized at the abbey church of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 21 July 1673. His father, who taught dancing to pupils at ...
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Younger [married name Finch], Elizabeth (1699–1762), actress and dancer
Moira Goff
Younger [married name Finch], Elizabeth (1699–1762), actress and dancer, was born on 2 September 1699, the daughter of James Younger, a soldier, and his wife, Margaret Keith (d. 1713). Both her parents were born in Scotland. Her elder sister was the actress and dancer ...
