Lucy Isabella Buckstone
Lucy Isabella Buckstone (September 1857 – 17 March 1893) was an English actress born to a noted British stage family. She was perhaps best remembered for her portrayals of Annette in the Leopold David Lewis drama The Bells, and Lucy Ormond in Peril by Scott and Stephenson.
She began her stage career about 1875 and continued acting into the early 1890s.
Life and career
Buckstone was born in
John Copeland Buckstone and Rowland (born 1860). All three siblings would eventually follow their father into acting careers.[2]
Buckstone made her first appearance on stage at the Croydon Theatre as Gertrude in
Prince of Wales's Theatre she was Lucy Ormond in Peril by Scott and Stephenson, an adaptation of Sardou's Nos intimes.[5] The following year Buckstone appeared as Minnie in Engaged, a comedy by W. S. Gilbert at the Haymarket.[7]
On 6 January 1879, at
St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Buckstone was married to Henry Edwards Smithes, the son of a wealthy London wine merchant. Her husband owned a large tract of cattle land near Victoria, Kansas, and for a time she joined him there, though eventually she returned to England after tiring of life on the prairie.[8][9]
In December 1882 Buckstone joined
Charles Hawtrey's The Private Secretary, and the following year, she was Blanche Denham in The Denhams, adapted from The Crisis by Thomas Holcroft. In February 1891 at the Globe Theatre she was Gwendolen Pettigrew in the George William Godfrey comedy The Parvenu, and that July at the Criterion Theatre, she was Flora in Miss Decima, by F. C. Burnand, from the French.[10][11][12]
Buckstone died in London on 17 March 1893 at the age of 35.[13]
Notes
- ^ "Bucksone Lucy Isabella", FreeBMD, accessed 29 December 2014
- ^ Parker, John. "Buckstone, J. C.", Who's Who in the Theatre, 1916, p. 71. Retrieved 29 July 2013
- ^ Clapp, John Bouvé and Edgett, Edwin Francis. Plays of the Present, 1902, p. 130. Retrieved 29 July 2013
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 733.
- ^ a b Converse Beach, Frederick and George Edwin Rines, ed. The Americana: a universal reference library, Vol. 3, Scientific American compiling department, 1912, accessed 29 July 2013
- ^ Scraps of English News, Rockhampton Bulletin, 22 June 1876, p. 2. Retrieved 30 July 2013
- ^ Ainger, p. 134
- ^ Pascoe, Charles Eyre. Our Actors and Actresses. The dramatic list, 1880, p. 72. Retrieved 29 July 2013
- ^ Forsythe, James L. The English Colony at Victoria, Another View. Retrieved 29 July 2013
- ^ The Theatre, 2 June 1884, p. 322. Retrieved 29 July 2013
- ^ Adams, William Davenport. Dictionary of the Drama, (The Crisis), 1904, p. 355. Retrieved 28 July 2013
- ^ Godfrey, George William. "The Pavenu; an Original Comedy in three Acts". Retrieved 28 July 2013
- ^ The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 3, 1907, p. 610. Retrieved 29 July 2013
References
- Ainger, Michael (2002). Gilbert and Sullivan – A Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514769-3.
External links
- Photo of Buckstone
- Another photo of BuckstoneArchived 11 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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