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Isabella Vincent

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On 25 August 1755 she married Richard Vincent who lead the orchestra at Vauxhall. They had three daughters but Elizabeth who was born in 1757 was the only survivor. Richard died in 1766. She and her second husband, John Mills, had another son John Wedderburn Samuel Thomas Mills who was baptized and
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Vincent continued to appear in the theatre although she was not noted for her acting, although her singing was well received and she was cast in two operas. Every year she would take the lead in the Beggars's Opera until her final season in 1767 when she sang the part once as a widow as her husband
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that year. Bentham boasted of meeting the "famous" Mrs Vincent who had entertained him with songs within the stage coach. Vincent had her first role of the stage when
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had died in 1766. She remarried in 1767 to John Mills who was a sea captain for the East India Company. They had met at
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which invited comparisons between them in the press. When she travelled by coach with the philosopher
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put on the Beggar's Opera at Drury Lane and cast Vincent in the leading role of Polly.
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She was said to have been a milkmaid who was trained as a singer at the expense of
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estate in Surrey and he had heard her near there. Tyers had a long lease on the
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and brought to London from near his estate in Surrey in 1751. Tyers owned the
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Vincent went to India with her daughter and her last husband but died in
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where she had been singing, each summer, since 1864.
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Index

Isabella Vincent (swimmer)

George Engleheart
John Raphael Smith
London
Great Britain
Vauxhall Gardens
British
Vauxhall Gardens
Jonathan Tyers
Denbies
Vauxhall Gardens
The Beggar's Opera
Vauxhall Gardens
Charlotte Brent
Jeremy Bentham
David Garrick
Marylebone Gardens
London
"Singers at Vauxhall Gardens"



"Vincent [née Burchell; other married name Mills], Isabella (1734/5–1802), singer"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/64360
ISBN
9780198614111
UK public library membership

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