Edward Loomis Davenport (1816 – 1 September 1877) was an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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Born in Boston

Boston

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, he made his first appearance on the stage in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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 in support of Junius Brutus Booth

Junius Brutus Booth

Junius Brutus Booth was an English actor. He was the father of John Wilkes Booth , Edwin Booth , and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., an actor and theatre manager...

. Afterwards he went to England

England

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, where he supported Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt

Anna Cora Mowatt

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie was an author, playwright, public reader, and actress.- Childhood :Anna Cora Ogden was born in Bordeaux, France, March 5, 1819. She was the tenth of fourteen children. Her father was Samuel Gouveneur Ogden , an American merchant...

 (Ritchie) (1819–1870), William Charles Macready

William Charles Macready

-Life:He was born in London, and educated at Rugby.It was his intention to go up to Oxford, but in 1809 the embarrassed affairs of his father, the lessee of several provincial theatres, called him to share the responsibilities of theatrical management. On 7 June 1810 he made a successful first...

 and others. In 1854 he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of Dickens

Charles Dickens

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's novels. As Bill Sikes

Bill Sikes

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 he was especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

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, a role he played at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1869, and Brutus

Brutus

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 were also greatly admired. He died in Canton, Pennsylvania

Canton, Pennsylvania

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In 1849 he had married Fanny Vining (Mrs. Charles Gill) (d. 1891), an English actress also in Mrs. Mowatts company. Their son Harry Davenport (1866–1949) and daughter Fanny Davenport

Fanny Davenport

Fanny Lily Gipsy Davenport was an English-American stage actress. The daughter of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Vining, she was born in London, England, but was brought to America when a child and educated in the Boston public schools...

(1850–1898) were also actors.