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    Sir Squire Bancroft (14 May 1841 – 19 April 1926), born Squire White Butterfield, was an English actor-manager. He changed his name to Squire Bancroft Bancroft...
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    1904 with donations from actors and writers of the time such as Sir Squire Bancroft, William Archer, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero and George Bernard Shaw. Other...
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    until after her marriage in December 1867 to Squire Bancroft, when she adopted his last name. Bancroft and her husband were important in the development...
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  • sculptor Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), English clergyman and Archbishop of Canterbury Ryan Bancroft (born 1989), American conductor Squire Bancroft (1841–1926)...
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  • Washington William Squire (1917–1989), Welsh actor William Henry Squire (1871–1963), British composer and cellist Given name: Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English...
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    have included Benjamin Nottingham Webster, John Baldwin Buckstone, Squire Bancroft, Cyril Maude, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and John Sleeper Clarke, brother-in-law...
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    request there were very few mourners, one of whom was the actor-manager Squire Bancroft. London. A biography of her was published in 1922 by her grandson Percy...
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    (1869), and M.P. (1870). In 1867, Wilton married Squire Bancroft and took his surname as Mrs. Effie Bancroft and regularly took the principal female parts...
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    Antony Armstrong-Jones, later 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer Sir Squire Bancroft, actor George Basevi, architect Clifford Bax, poet and playwright Sybille...
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    of several successes by Robertson produced in London's West End by Squire Bancroft and his wife Marie Wilton. As its name suggests, Caste concerns distinctions...
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    Irving's company Pinero joined another well-known London management, Squire Bancroft and his wife Effie, who ran the Haymarket Theatre. For them he played...
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    opening for her. He brought her in contact with the actor-manager Squire Bancroft, who controlled the Haymarket and the Prince of Wales’ theatres. Lillie...
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    and Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by husband-wife teams such as Squire Bancroft and Effie Bancroft, Frank Wyatt and Violet Melnotte, William Hunter Kendal and...
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    Parliament for Tower Hamlets 1857–74 William Edward Ayrton – physicist Sir Squire Bancroft – actor and theatre impresario William Banting – undertaker and low-carbohydrate...
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  • Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. His portrait painting of Sir Squire Bancroft and several drawings and prints are in the National Portrait Gallery...
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    with the Punch 'Round table'. The play marked the London debut of Squire Bancroft, who went on to marry Effie Wilton in 1867 and become her co-manager...
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    were carried out. After the Duke of Beaufort's death in 1899, Sir Squire Bancroft took over as club president. It was around this time that the club's...
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    Gordon Bennett Jr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1918) May 14 – Sir Squire Bancroft, English actor (d. 1926) May 15 – Clarence Dutton, American geologist...
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    his plays were empty of ideas.[citation needed] After producer Sir Squire Bancroft saw the dress rehearsal for Fedora, he said in his memoirs "In five...
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    was written for Squire Bancroft and his wife Marie (née Wilton), managers of the Prince of Wales's Theatre, and starred Mrs. Bancroft. Gilbert wanted...
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    Liverpool, under his personal direction with a cast that included Wilton, Squire Bancroft (her future husband and partner) and John Hare. The play transferred...
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    success in a 20-year acting career, including with the company of Squire Bancroft at London's Haymarket Theatre in the 1880s. In 1893, he was the first...
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    Herbert Sullivan and theatre managers including Beerbohm Tree and Squire Bancroft, Carte was an instigator of a memorial to W. S. Gilbert at Charing...
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  • profession". The first secretary of the academy was George Bancroft, son of Squire Bancroft and Marie Wilton; Barnes succeeded him in 1909. Barnes was...
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    Woman of Business. Among the company were J. L. Toole (a guest star), Squire Bancroft, Lionel Brough and William Blakeley, with all of whom Hare was quickly...
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    Macklin's Man of World; and Trial by Jury. Henry Irving, Joseph Jefferson, Squire Bancroft, Ellen Terry, J. L. Toole, Nellie Farren and many other leading stars...
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    Wales's Theatre, Liverpool, together with the rising young actors Squire Bancroft, Marie Wilton and Henry Irving. There, she played in Brough's Ernani...
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    London Theatre manager (Holborn Theatre), actor and contemporary of Squire Bancroft and Sir Henry Irving Miss Jane Bennett Popular misconception in literature...
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  • BBC Television Shakespeare production. He also had small roles as Squire Bancroft in Lillie and Samuel Hoare in Edward & Mrs. Simpson. Moore, John (25...
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  • Hero and union activist in Archbald, Pennsylvania (d. 2017) Died: Sir Squire Bancroft, 84, English stage actor Acting president of China Duan Qirui fled...
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