Elizabeth Yates (actress)
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Elizabeth Yates | |
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Born | Elizabeth Brunton 21 January 1799 |
Died | 30 August 1860 | (aged 61)
Nationality | British |
Other names | Miss Brunton, Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Yates late Miss Brunton |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse | Frederick Henry Yates |
Elizabeth Yates (née Brunton; 21 January 1799 – 30 August 1860) was an English actress. She appeared on the stage under the names Miss Brunton, Elizabeth Brunton, Elizabeth Yates, Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Yates late Miss Brunton.
Early life and family
Elizabeth Brunton was born at
Brunton married Frederick Henry Yates, a fellow actor with whom she had worked at Drury Lane, on 30 November 1823.[5][6] A son Edmond Hodgson Yates (1831-1894) was born on 3 July 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland.[note 2][7]
Early stage career
Elizabeth Brunton made her theatrical debut in 1815, in her father's theatre at Lynn, playing Desdemona opposite
Brunton made her London debut at
In the 1818–1819 season, Brunton reprised her role as Letitia Hardy, in Edinburgh and, at Covent Garden, played Lady Teazle, Fanny in
In her final season at Covent Garden (engagements at the patent theatres generally lasted three years) Brunton played Miss Prue in Love for Love, Sophia in
Later years
Following her departure from London, Brunton joined her father at the
In the 1823–24 season, Brunton appeared in Bath as Albina Mandeville in The Will; as Belinda in All in the Wrong, Clarinda in the Suspicious Husband, The Peasant Boy, Helen Worrett in Man and Wife, Aladdin, Widow Cheerly in The Soldier's Daughter, Miss Dorillon in Wives as they were, Cynthia in Oberon and Cynthia, Biddy Tipkin in The Tender Husband, Dolly Bull in Fontainebleau, Clara in Matrimony, Olivia in Bold Stroke for a Husband, Lydia Languish and Actress of All Work and Harriet in Is he jealous?.
Brunton played with her now-husband at Cheltenham, and made her first appearance at Drury Lane as Violante in 1824. In the 1825–26 season, Yates played the first Guido in Massaniello, the first Agnes in Knowles's William Tell, Mrs. Frail in Love for Love, Clarissa in The Confederacy, Aurora in The Panel, Isabinda in The Busy Body, Constantia (an original part) in Joseph Lunn's White Lies, Countess Wintersen in The Stranger, among other parts; her husband did not share this engagement.
After 1828, Yates played primarily at Drury Lane. Throughout the 1830s, she played leading roles in plays by Buckstone, including in Wreck Ashore, Victorine, Henriette the Forsaken and Isabelle. Additionally, she played Orynthe in Fitzball's Earthquake, Mona in Charles Mathews's Truth, Elizabeth Stanton in Fitzball's Tom Cringle, Valsha in Stirling Coyne's's Valsha, Grace Darling in Edward Stirling's Grace Darling, and Miss Aubrey in Richard Brinsley Peake's Ten Thousand a Year.
Yates played in Surrey in 1839, as Margaret Mammon in Thomas Herbert Reynoldson's Curse of Mammon.
Decline and death
After the death of her husband, in June 1842, Yates tried a year's management at the Adelphi Theatre with Mary Gladstane, but found the task too much for her. She played one season at the Lyceum in 1848–9, where she played Tilburina in The Critic, among other parts.
Yates then withdrew from the stage, and, after a long and painful illness, died on 30 August 1860.[9] A miniature by Samuel John Stump of Cork Street was in the possession of her son. A portrait of her as Eugenia in Sweethearts and Wives accompanied a memoir in the Theatrical Times (i. 209), 28 November 1846.
Notes
- ^ England & Wales 1851 census age 51 born Norwich, with Edmond Hodgson Yates 19 born Scotland, Gloucester Place, Saint Marylebone[citation needed]
- ^ England & Wales 1851 census age 51 born Norwich, with Edmond Hodgson Yates 19 born Scotland, Gloucester Place, Saint Marylebone[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Married". Stamford rd Mercury. 12 December 1823. p. 2.
- ^ a b Library, Folger Shakespeare. "Louisa". Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-8093-0518-6. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Marriage of Earl Craven". Stamford Mercury. 18 December 1807. p. 3.
- ^ "Norwich Mercury". 6 December 1823. p. 3.
- ^ "Married". Stamford rd Mercury. 12 December 1823. p. 2.
- ^ "Death of Mr Yates". Lincolnshire Echo. 21 May 1894. p. 3.
- ISBN 978-0-8173-0664-9.
- ^ At Kentish Town, according to her son's book; on 5 September, at Brighton, according to the Era newspaper and the Era Almanack.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Yates, Elizabeth". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.