BELLAMY, GEORGE ANNE (1727-1788)

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BELLAMY, GEORGE ANNE (1727-1788) , English actress, born at Fingal, Ireland, by her own account, on the 23rd of April 1733, but more probably in 1727, was the illegitimate daughter of Lord Tyrawley, British

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

at Lisbon. Her mother married there a Captain

Bellamy

, and the child received the name George Anne, by mistake for Georgiana. Lord Tyrawley acknowledged the child, had her educated in a convent in Boulogne, and through him she came to know a number of notable people in London. On his appointment as

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Russia, she went to live with her mother in London, made the acquaintance of Mrs Woffington and

Garrick

GARRICK,
DAVID
(1717-1779)

, and adopted the theatrical profession. Her first engagement was at Covent

Garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

as Monimia in the Orphan in 1744. Owing to her personal charms and the social patronage extended to her, her success was immediate, and till 1770 she acted in London, Edinburgh and Dublin, in all the

principal

PRINCIPAL

tragic roles. She played Juliet to

Garrick

GARRICK,
DAVID
(1717-1779)

's Romeo at Drury

Lane

at the time that Spranger Barry (q.v.) was giving the rival performances at Covent

Garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

, and was considered the better of the Juliets. Her last years were unhappy, and passed in poverty and ill-health. She died on the 16th of February 1788.'
Her Apology (6 vols., 1785) gives an account of her

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

career and of her private life, the extravagance and

licence

LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

of which were notorious.

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