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KENDAL, WILLIAM HUNTER (1843 ) , English actor, whose family name was Grimston, was born in London on the 16th of December 1843, the son of a painter. He made his first stage appearance at Glasgow in 1862 as Louis XIV., in A Life's Revenge, billed as " Mr Kendall." After some experience at Birmingham and elsewhere, he joined the Haymarket company in London in 1866, acting everything from burlesque to Romeo. In 1869 he married Margaret (Madge) Shafto Robertson (b. 1849), sister of the dramatist, T. W. Robertson. As " Mr and Mrs Kendal " their professional careers then became inseparable. Mrs Kendal's first stage appearance was as Marie, " a child," in The Orphan of the Frozen Sea in 1854 in London. She soon showed such talent both as actress and singer that she secured numerous engagements, and by 1865 was playing Ophelia and Desdemona. She was Mary Meredith
Cousin
Young
Lydia
Pygmalion
Hare
joint -managers of the St James's theatre, some of their notable successes being in The Squire, Impulse, The Ironmaster and A Scrap of Paper . In 1888, however, the Hare
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