EDWARD LOOMIS DAVENPORT (1816-1877)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 853
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
EDWARD LOOMIS DAVENPORT (1816-1877)
, American actor, born in Boston, made his first appearance on the stage in Providence in support of Junius Brutus Booth
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Afterwards he went to England, where he supported Mrs Anna Cora Mowatt ( Ritchie) (1819-187o), Macready and others
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In 1854 he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of Dickens's novels
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As Bill Sykes he was
especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach and Brutus were also greatly admired
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He died at Canton, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of September 1877
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In 1849 he had married Fanny Vining (Mrs Charles Gill) (d
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1891), an English actress also in Mrs Mowatt's company
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Their daughter FANNY ( LILY GIpsY) DAVENPORT (1850—1898) appeared in America at the age of twelve as the See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
of Spain in Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady
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Later (1869) she was a member of Daly's company; and after-wards, with a company of her own, acted with especial success in Sardou's Fedora (1883), Cleopatra (189o), and similar plays
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Her last appearance was on the 25th of March 1898, shortly before her death
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