Evelyn D'Alroy

thumb Evelyn D'Alroy (1881–1915,{{cite web |url=https://thewomenwhomademe.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/evelyn-dalroys-story/ |title=Evelyn D'Alroy's story |date=23 January 2020 |website=The Women Who Made Me |language=en |access-date=9 March 2020}} née Evelyn May Tegg, and on marriage Evelyn Watson), was an Edwardian English stage actress of considerable renown.

She took to the stage in 1899,{{cite news |title=Provincial Theatricals |work=The Era |date=15 July 1899}} and made her London debut as the Duchesse de Longueville in a period piece, The Bond of Ninon by Clotilde Graves, at the Savoy Theatre in April 1906.

Her first considerable success was as Mrs. Cray in “The Builders” by Norah Keith at the Criterion on 10 November 1908.{{cite book |title=Who's Who In the Theatre |date=1914}} She then joined the Lewis Waller Players and regularly worked at London's Lyric Theatre.{{cite news |title=Miss Evelyn D'Alroy: Death of a Popular Actress |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=30 April 1915}}

In September 1909 she was taken on by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre. Her favourite role to play was reputedly Shakespeare's Ophelia.{{cite web |url=https://shakespeare.emory.edu/evelyn-dalroy/ |title=Evelyn D'Alroy {{!}} Shakespeare and the Players |publisher=Emory University |access-date=9 March 2020}} Portraits of Evelyn in various theatrical productions are held by the National Portrait Gallery.{{cite web |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp67947/evelyn-dalroy |title=Evelyn D'Alroy |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |access-date=9 March 2020}}

In April 1915 while on tour she was taken ill suddenly in Sheffield with appendicitis. She was operated on at the hospital, and her appendix removed, and taken to a nursing home to recover, but died three days later of pneumonia with her husband—theatre critic Thomas Malcolm Watson—at her side.