Lily Hanbury
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Lily Hanbury (born Lilian Florence Alcock;[1] 1873 – 5 March 1908) was an English actress.
Biography
Lily Hanbury was the daughter of Elizabeth (née Davis) and Matthew Henry Alcock.[2] Hanbury's younger sister, Hilda, also an actress and also at one time a member of Beerbohm Tree's theatrical company, is the grandmother of Edward Fox and James Fox and the great-grandmother of Freddie, Emilia, and Laurence Fox.[3] Lily and her sister Hilda had a pet dog named "Wobbles" who died in 1900 and is buried in Hyde Park pet cemetery.[4]
Educated in London, Hanbury's début was in an 1888 revival of W. S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea;[5] later she appeared on most of the leading stages of the English metropolis. Her extensive career included playing Countess Wintersen in The Stranger, Hetty Preene in G. R. Sims's Lights o' London, Jessica Hunter in Clyde Fitch's The Climbers, and Petra in Ibsen's Enemy of the People.
Hanbury reached the peak of her popularity by playing a number of parts in Shakespearian plays, mainly under the management of Wilson Barrett and Herbert Beerbohm Tree.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
On 18 April 1905 she married chartered accountant Herbert Guedella (1874–1940) at the Register Office in Hanover Square, giving her age as 29 (she was actually 32).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Hanbury died on 5 March 1908 of medical complications following the delivery of a still-born child.[5] Her remains were cremated and her ashes interred at Willesden Jewish Cemetery.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
References
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External links
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- Shakespeare and the Players
- Lily Hanbury(1890s W&D Downey)
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- 1873 births
- 1908 deaths
- 19th-century English actresses
- 20th-century English actresses
- Actors from the London Borough of Camden
- Actresses from London
- Burials at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
- Deaths in childbirth
- English Shakespearean actresses
- English stage actresses
- People from St Pancras, London
- Robin Fox family