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Edward Loomis Davenport

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Birth Date:
00.00.1816
Death date:
01.09.1877
Categories:
Actor
Nationality:
 american
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Edward Loomis Davenport (1816 – September 1, 1877) was an American actor.

Life and career

Born in Boston, he made his first appearance on the stage in Providence, Rhode Island in support of Junius Brutus Booth. Afterwards he went to England, where he supported Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt (Ritchie) (1819–1870), William Charles Macready and others. 

In 1854 he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of Dickens's novels. As Bill Sikes he was especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach, a role he played at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1869, and Brutus were also greatly admired.

He died in Canton, Pennsylvania.

Family

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 (1850–1898) were also actors.

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Harry DavenportHarry DavenportSon19.01.186609.08.1949
        2Fanny  DavenportFanny DavenportDaughter10.04.185026.09.1898
        3Melbourne MacDowellMelbourne MacDowellSon in-law22.11.185618.02.1941
        4Alice  DavenportAlice DavenportDaughter in-law29.02.186424.06.1936
        5Phyllis  RankinPhyllis RankinDaughter in-law31.08.187417.11.1934
        6Dorothy  DavenportDorothy DavenportGranddaughter13.03.189512.10.1977

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