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BADDELEY, ROBERT (c. 1732–1794)

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BADDELEY, See also:ROBERT (c. 1732–1794) , See also:English actor, is said to have been first a See also:cook to See also:Samuel See also:Foote, " the English See also:Aristophanes," and then a See also:valet, before he appeared on the See also:stage: In 1761, described as " of See also:Drury See also:Lane See also:theatre," he was seen at the theatre in Smock See also:Alley, See also:Dublin, as See also:Gomez in See also:Dryden's See also:Spanish See also:Friar. Two years later he was a See also:regular member of the Drury Lane See also:company in See also:London, where he had a See also:great success in the See also:low See also:comedy and servants' parts. He remained at this theatre and the Haymarket until his See also:death. He was the See also:original See also:Moses in the School for See also:Scandal. Baddeley died on the loth of See also:November 1794. He bequeathed See also:property to found a See also:home for decayed actors, and also £3 per annum to provide See also:wine and cake in the See also:green-See also:room of Drury Lane theatre on Twelfth See also:Night. The ceremony of the Baddeley cake has remained a regular institution. His wife See also:SOPHIA BADDELEY (1745–1786), an actress and See also:singer, was See also:born in London, the daughter of a sergeant-See also:trumpeter named See also:Snow. She was a woman of great beauty, but excessive vanity and notorious conduct. At the See also:age of eighteen she ran away with Baddeley, then acting at Drury Lane, and she herself made her first See also:appearance on the stage there on the 27th of See also:April 1765, as Ophelia. Later, as a singer, she obtained engagements at See also:Ranelagh and See also:Vauxhall.

Though separated from her See also:

husband on See also:account of her misconduct, she still played several years in the same company. Her beauty and her extravagance rendered her celebrated, but the See also:money which she made in all sorts of ways was so freely squandered that she was obliged to take See also:refuge from her creditors in See also:Edinburgh, where she made her last appearance on the stage in 1784. See See also:Memoirs of See also:Mistress Sophia Baddeley, by Mrs See also:Elizabeth See also:Steele, 6 vols. (1781).

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