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WILLIAM HUNTER KENDAL (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 727 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:HUNTER See also:KENDAL (1843– )  , See also:English actor, whose See also:family name was Grimston, was See also:born in See also:London on the 16th of See also:December 1843, the son of a painter . He made his first See also:stage See also:appearance at See also:Glasgow in 1862 as See also:Louis XIV., in A See also:Life's Revenge, billed as " Mr See also:Kendall." After some experience at See also:Birmingham and elsewhere, he joined the Haymarket See also:company in London in 1866, acting everything from See also:burlesque to Romeo . In 1869 he married See also:Margaret (Madge) Shafto See also:Robertson (b . 1849), See also:sister of the dramatist, T . W . Robertson . As " Mr and Mrs See also:Kendal " their professional careers then became inseparable . Mrs Kendal's first stage appearance was as See also:Marie, " a See also:child," in The See also:Orphan of the Frozen See also:Sea in 1854 in London . She soon showed such See also:talent both as actress and See also:singer that she secured numerous engagements, and by 1865 was playing Ophelia and Desdemona . She was See also:Mary See also:Meredith in Our See also:American See also:Cousin with See also:Sothern, and Pauline to his Claud Melnotte . But her real triumphs were at the Haymarket in Shakespearian revivals and the old English comedies . While Mr Kendal played Orlando; See also:Charles See also:Surface, See also:Jack See also:Absolute and See also:Young See also:Marlowe, his wife made the See also:combination perfect with her Rosalind, See also:Lady Teazle, See also:Lydia Languish and Kate Hardcastle; and she created Galatea in See also:Gilbert's See also:Pygmalion and Galatea (1871) .

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Short seasons followed at the See also:Court See also:theatre and at the See also:Prince of See also:Wales's, at the latter of which they joined the Bancrofts in See also:Diplomacy and other plays . Then in 1879 began a See also:long association with Mr (afterwards See also:Sir See also:John) See also:Hare as See also:joint-managers of the St See also:James's theatre, some of their notable successes being in The See also:Squire, Impulse, The Ironmaster and A Scrap of See also:Paper . In 1888, however, the Hare and Kendal regime came to an end . From that See also:time Mr and Mrs Kendal chiefly toured in the provinces and in See also:America, with an occasional See also:season at rare intervals in London .

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