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HANNAH PRITCHARD (1711-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 370 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRITCHARD (1711-1768)  , See also:English actress, whose name before her See also:early See also:marriage—to an actor—was See also:Vaughan, first attracted See also:attention as a See also:singer at See also:Bartholomew's See also:Fair in 1733 . She was soon playing a wide variety of parts, mostly See also:comedy, at the Haymarket, See also:Drury See also:Lane and Covent See also:Garden . When See also:Garrick became patentee of Drury Lane in 1747 she joined his See also:company and played with him for twenty years, her last See also:appearance being as See also:Lady See also:Macbeth—one of her greatest relies—in See also:April 1768, a few months before her See also:death . Her talents were highly thought of by the critics of the See also:day . Her daughter, who had studied under Garrick, and whose beauty created a sensation when she made her debut (as " See also:Miss See also:Pritchard ") in See also:October 1756, did not live up to the expectations then raised . She married in 1762 the actor See also:John See also:Palmer, retired from the See also:stage at the same See also:time as her See also:mother, and after her See also:husband's death married a See also:political writer named See also:Lloyd .

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