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BADDELEY, ROBERT (c. 17321794)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 183 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
BADDELEY, ROBERT (c. 17321794) , English actor, is said to have been first a cook to Samuel Foote, " the English Aristophanes," and then a valet, before he appeared on the stage: In 1761, described as " of Drury Lane theatre," he was seen at the theatre in Smock Alley, Dublin, as
Gomez
  in Dryden's Spanish Friar. Two years later he was a regular member of the Drury Lane company in London, where he had a
great
  success in the low comedy and servants' parts. He remained at this theatre and the Haymarket until his death. He was the
original
  Moses in the School for Scandal.
Baddeley
  died on the loth of November 1794. He bequeathed property to found a
home
  for decayed actors, and also 3 per annum to provide wine and cake in the green-room of Drury Lane theatre on Twelfth Night. The ceremony of the
Baddeley
  cake has remained a regular institution.
His wife
SOPHIA
  BADDELEY (17451786), an actress and
singer
 , was born in London, the daughter of a sergeant-trumpeter named Snow. She was a woman of
great
  beauty, but excessive vanity and notorious conduct. At the age of eighteen she ran away with Baddeley, then acting at Drury Lane, and she herself made her first
appearance
  on the stage there on the 27th of April 1765, as Ophelia. Later, as a
singer
 , she obtained engagements at
Ranelagh
  and Vauxhall. Though separated from her husband on account of her misconduct, she still played several years in the same company. Her beauty and her extravagance rendered her celebrated, but the money which she made in all sorts of ways was so freely squandered that she was obliged to take
refuge
  from her creditors in Edinburgh, where she made her last
appearance
  on the stage in 1784.
See Memoirs of Mistress
Sophia
  Baddeley, by Mrs Elizabeth Steele, 6 vols. (1781).


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