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See also:SIDDONS, SARAH (1755-1831) , See also:English actress, the eldest of twelve See also:children of See also:Roger See also:Kemble, was See also:born in the " See also:Shoulder of Mutton " public-See also:house, See also:Brecon, See also:Wales, on the 5th of See also:July 1755. Through the See also:special care of her See also:mother in sending her to the See also:schools in the towns where the See also:company played, Sarah Kemble received a remarkably See also:good See also:education, although she was accustomed to make her See also:appearance on the See also:stage while still a See also:child. She became attached to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Siddons, an actor of the company; but this was discountenanced by her parents, who wished her to accept the offer of a See also:squire. Siddons was dismissed from the company, and she was sent to a situation as See also:lady's maid to Mrs See also:Greathead at See also:Guy's Cliff in See also:Warwickshire. Here she recited See also:Shakespeare, See also:Milton and Rowe in the servants'
See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, and occasionally before aristocratic company, and here also she began to develop a capacity for See also:sculpture which was subsequently See also:developed (between 1789 and 1790), and of which she provided samples in busts of herself and of her son. The necessary consent to her See also:union with Siddons was at last obtained, and the See also:marriage took See also:place at Trinity See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:Coventry, on the 26th of See also:November 1773. It was while playing at See also:Cheltenham in the following See also:year that Mrs Siddons met with the earliest decided recognition of her See also:powers as an actress, when by her See also:representation of Belvidera in See also:Otway's See also:Venice Preserved she moved to tears a party of " See also:people of quality " who had come to scoff. Her merits were made known by them to See also:Garrick, who sent his See also:deputy to Cheltenham to see her as Calista in Rowe's See also:Fair Penitent, the result being that she was engaged to appear at See also:Drury See also:Lane at a See also:salary of £5 a See also:week. Owing to inexperience as well as other circumstances, her first appearances as Portia and in other parts were unfortunate, and when, after playing with success in See also:Birmingham, she was about to return to See also:town she received a See also:note from the manager of Drury Lane stating that her services would not be required. Thus, in her own words, " banished from Drury Lane as a worthless See also:candidate for fame and See also:fortune," she again in the beginning of 1777 went on " the See also:circuit " in the provinces. After a very successful engagement at See also:Bath, beginning in 1778 and lasting five years, she again accepted an offer from Drury Lane, when her appearance as See also:Isabella in Garrick's version of See also:Southerne's Fatal Marriage, on the loth of See also:October 1782, was a See also:triumph, only equalled in the See also:history of the English stage by that of Garrick's first See also:night at Drury Lane in 1741 and that of See also:Edmund See also:Kean's in 1814. In her earlier years it was in scenes of a See also:tender and melting See also:character that she exercised the strongest sway over an See also:audience; but in the performance of Lady See also:Macbeth, in which she appeared on the 2nd of See also:February 1785 for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:London, it was the grandeur of her See also:exhibition of the more terrible passions as related to one awful purpose that held them spellbound. In Lady Macbeth she found the highest and best See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope for her gifts. It fitted her as no other character did, and as perhaps it will never See also:fit another actress. Her extraordinary and See also:peculiar See also:physical endowments—tall and striking figure, brilliant beauty, See also:power-fully expressive eyes, and See also:solemn dignity of demeanour—enabled her to confer a weird See also:majesty on the character which inexpressibly heightened the tragic See also:awe surrounding her See also:fate. After Lady Macbeth she played Desdemona, Rosalind and Ophelia, all with See also:great success; but it was in See also:Queen See also:Catherine —which she first played on the occasion of her See also:brother See also:John Kemble's spectacular revival of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. in 1788—that she discovered a See also:part almost as well adapted to her peculiar powers as that of Lady Macbeth. As Volumnia in Kemble's version of See also:Coriolanus she also secured a triumph. In her See also:early See also:life she had attempted See also:comedy, but her gifts in this respect were very limited. It was of course inevitable that comparisons should be made between her and her only peer, See also:Rachel, who undoubtedly excelled her in intensity and the portrayal of fierce See also:passion, but was a less finished artist and lacked Mrs Siddons' dignity and pathos. Though Mrs Siddons' See also:minute and systematic study perhaps gave a certain amount of stiffness to her representations, it conferred on them a symmetry and proportion to which Rachel never attained. Mrs Siddons formally retired from the stage in 1812, but occasionally appeared on special occasions even when advanced in years. Her last appearance was on the 9th of See also:June 1819 as Lady See also:Randolph in See also:Home's See also:Douglas, for the benefit of Mr and Mrs See also:Charles Kemble. Her most striking impersonations, besides the roles already mentioned, were those of See also:Zara in See also:Congreve's See also:Mourning See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride, See also:Constance in See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King John, Mrs See also:Haller in The Stranger, and See also:Elvira in See also:Pizarro. In private life Mrs Siddons enjoyed the friendship and respect of many of the most eminent-persons of her time. See also:Horace See also:Walpole at first refused to join the fashionable See also:chorus of her praise, but he was ultimately won over. Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson wrote his name on the hem of her garment in the famous picture of the actress as the Tragic Muse by See also:Reynolds (now in the See also:Dulwich See also:Gallery). " I would not lose," he said, " the See also:honour this opportunity afforded to me for
my name going down to posterity on the hem of your garment." Mrs Siddons died in London on the 8th of June 1831, and was buried in See also:Paddington See also:churchyard.
On the 14th of June 1897 See also:Sir Henry See also:Irving unveiled at Paddington See also:Green a See also:marble statue of her by Chavalliaud, after the portrait by Reynolds. There is also a large statue by See also:Chantrey in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. Portraits by See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence and Gains-See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough are in the See also:National Gallery, and a portrait ascribed to See also:Gainsborough is in the Garrick See also:Club, London, which also possesses two pictures of the actress as Lady Macbeth by See also:George Henry Harlow.
See See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, Life of Mrs Siddons (2 vols., 1834) ; See also:Fitzgerald, The Kembles ( 3 vols., 1871); Frances See also:Ann Kemble, Records of a Girlhood (3 vols., 1878).
End of Article: SIDDONS, SARAH (1755-1831)
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