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DAVENPORT, EDWARD LOOMIS (1816-1877)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 853 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DAVENPORT, EDWARD LOOMIS (1816-1877) , American actor, born in Boston, made his first
appearance
  on the stage in Providence in support of Junius Brutus
Booth
 . Afterwards he went to England, where he supported Mrs Anna Cora Mowatt (Ritchie) (1819-187o), Macready and others. In 1854 he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of Dickens's novels. As
Bill
  Sykes he was
especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach and Brutus were also greatly admired. He died at
Canton
 ,
Pennsylvania
 , on the 1st of September 1877. In 1849 he had married Fanny Vining (Mrs Charles Gill) (d. 1891), an
English
  actress also in Mrs Mowatt's company. Their daughter FANNY (LILY GIpsY) DAVENPORT (18501898) appeared in America at the age of twelve as the king of Spain in Faint Heart Never Won
Fair
  Lady. Later (1869) she was a member of
Daly
 's company; and after-wards, with a company of her own, acted with especial success in Sardou's Fedora (1883), Cleopatra (189o), and similar plays. Her last
appearance
  was on the 25th of
March
  1898, shortly before her death.


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