Lily Hanbury
{{Short description|English actress (1873–1908)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Lily Hanbury
| image = Lily Hanbury. W. & D. Downey.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Hanbury {{circa|1895–1900}}
| birthname = Lilian Florence Alcock
| birth_date = 1873
| birth_place = St Pancras, London, England
| death_date = 5 March {{death year and age|1908|1873}}
| death_place = St Giles, London, England
| resting_place = {{nowrap|Willesden Jewish Cemetery}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Herbert Guedella|18 April 1905}}
}}
Lily Hanbury (born Lilian Florence Alcock;{{cite web |title=England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 |url=http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FreeBMDBirth&h=43058329&ti=5538&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t75836436_p42329733165_kpidz0q3d42329733165z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid |accessdate=26 December 2014 |website=www.ancestry.co.uk}} ('Subscription required') 1873 – 5 March 1908) was an English actress.
Biography
Lily Hanbury was the daughter of Elizabeth (née Davis) and Matthew Henry Alcock.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/wdytya_emiliafox.php|title=Featured Articles: TheGenealogist}} Hanbury's younger sister, Hilda, also an actress and also at one time a member of Beerbohm Tree's theatrical company, is the grandmother of Edward Fox and James Fox and the great-grandmother of Freddie, Emilia, and Laurence Fox.{{Cite episode |title=Emilia Fox |series=Who Do You Think You Are? |series-link=Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series) |network=BBC One |airdate=7 September 2011 |series-no=8 |number=5}} Lily and her sister Hilda had a pet dog named "Wobbles" who died in 1900 and is buried in Hyde Park pet cemetery.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11782731/Inside-Hyde-Parks-secret-pet-cemetery.html Inside Hyde Park's Secret Pet Cemetery] in The Daily Telegraph
Educated in London, Hanbury's début was in an 1888 revival of W. S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea;{{cite news|title=Death of Lily Hanbury. London Actress Who Was Prominently Associated with Mr. Tree.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/06/archives/death-of-lily-hanbury-london-actress-who-was-prominently-associated.html|accessdate=9 September 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=6 March 1908}} Note that Pygmalion and Galatea did not play at the Savoy Theatre in 1888, so the NYT is in error on that point. later she appeared on most of the leading stages of the English metropolis. Her extensive career included playing Countess Wintersen in The Stranger, Hetty Preene in G. R. Sims's Lights o' London, Jessica Hunter in Clyde Fitch's The Climbers, and Petra in Ibsen's Enemy of the People.
Hanbury reached the peak of her popularity by playing a number of parts in Shakespearian plays, mainly under the management of Wilson Barrett and Herbert Beerbohm Tree.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
On 18 April 1905 she married chartered accountant Herbert Guedella (1874–1940) at the Register Office in Hanover Square, giving her age as 29 (she was actually 32).{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
Hanbury died on 5 March 1908 of medical complications following the delivery of a still-born child. Her remains were cremated and her ashes interred at Willesden Jewish Cemetery.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060910171632/http://shakespeare.emory.edu/actordisplay.cfm?actorid=130 Shakespeare and the Players]
- [https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/v74AAOSwpetkQUGb/s-l1600.jpg Lily Hanbury](1890s W&D Downey)
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Category:19th-century English actresses
Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Camden
Category:Actresses from London
Category:Burials at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Category:English Shakespearean actresses
Category:English stage actresses