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DAVENPORT, EDWARD LOOMIS (1816-1877)

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DAVENPORT, See also:EDWARD LOOMIS (1816-1877) , See also:American actor, See also:born in See also:Boston, made his first See also:appearance on the See also:stage in See also:Providence in support of See also:Junius See also:Brutus See also:Booth. Afterwards he went to See also:England, where he supported Mrs See also:Anna Cora Mowatt (See also:Ritchie) (1819-187o), See also:Macready and others. In 1854 he was again in the See also:United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of See also:Dickens's novels. As See also:Bill Sykes he was especially successful, and his See also:Sir See also:Giles Overreach and Brutus were also greatly admired. He died at See also:Canton, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 1st of See also:September 1877. In 1849 he had married Fanny Vining (Mrs See also:Charles Gill) (d. 1891), an See also:English actress also in Mrs Mowatt's See also:company. Their daughter FANNY (See also:LILY GIpsY) DAVENPORT (1850—1898) appeared in See also:America at the See also:age of twelve as the See also:king of See also:Spain in Faint See also:Heart Never Won See also:Fair See also:Lady. Later (1869) she was a member of See also:Daly's company; and after-wards, with a company of her own, acted with especial success in See also:Sardou's Fedora (1883), See also:Cleopatra (189o), and similar plays. Her last appearance was on the 25th of See also:March 1898, shortly before her See also:death.

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