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FENTON, LAVINIA (1708-1760)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 260 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FENTON, LAVINIA (1708-1760) , English actress, was probably the daughter cf a naval
lieutenant
  named Beswick, but she bore the name of her
mother
 's husband. Her first
appearance
  was as Monimia in Otway's Orphans, in 1726 at the Hay-market. She then joined the company of players at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where her success and beauty made her the toast of the
beaux
 . It was in Gay's Beggar's Opera, as Polly Peachum, that Miss Fenton made her greatest success. Her pictures were in
great
  demand, verses were written to her and books published about her, and she was the most talked-of person in London. Hogarth's picture shows her in one of the scenes, with the duke of
Bolton
  in a box. After appearing in several comedies, and then in numerous repetitions of the Beggar's Opera, she ran away with her lover Charles Paulet, 3rd duke of
Bolton
 , a man much older than herself, who, after the death of his wife in 1751, married her. Their three children all died
young
 . The duchess survived her husband and died on the 24th of January 176o.


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