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Sarah Egerton (actress)

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was originally cast for Meg Merrilies, but refused to take the part. The management turned almost in despair to Egerton, whose success proved to be conspicuous. Helen Macgregor in Pocock's
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she was (21 October 1813) the original Ravina. She relapsed into obscurity, from which, thanks to adaptations from the
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Soon after Daniel Egerton's death in 1835 she retired from the stage, accepting a pension from the
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in 1810. On 25 February 1811, as Mrs. Egerton from Birmingham, she played
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on 3 August 1847, and was buried on 7 August in Chelsea churchyard.
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soon afterwards. He was playing leading business in Bath.
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The Heart of Midlothian, or the Lily of St. Leonard's
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Her first recorded appearance as Mrs. Egerton was at
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Egerton was the daughter of Peter Fisher, rector of
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Index


Thomas Charles Wageman
actress
William Macready
Little Torrington
Devon
Bath
John Till Allingham
The Marriage Promise
William Dimond
John Hawkesworth
Edgar and Emmeline
Daniel Egerton
Birmingham
Juliet
Covent Garden
Cato
Comedy of Errors
Othello

James Thomson
Samuel De Wilde
Daniel Terry
Walter Scott
Guy Mannering
Sarah Siddons
Eliza O'Neill
melodrama
The Miller and his Men
Isaac Pocock

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