KEMBLE

Adelaide (younger dau. of the succeeding). b. Covent Garden chambers, London 1814; first appeared as a soprano singer at Concert of ancient music 13 May 1835; sang at Prague and Paris 1837–8; first appeared in opera at the Fenice theatre, Venice as Norma; sang at Covent Garden and in the provinces 1841–2, her chief characters being Norma, Susanna and Amina; last appeared on the stage 23 Dec. 1842; one of the best English singers of the century. ( m. 1843 Edward John Sartor is of Warnford park, Hants., b. 1817, M.P. for Car mar then 1868–74); composed a few vocal pieces; author of A week in a French country house 1867; Medusa and other tales 1868, reprinted as Past Hours 2 vols. 1880. d. Warsash house, Warsash, Hampshire 4 Aug. 1879. Wilson’s Our Actre es , ii 253–68 (1844), portrait ; Cruikshank’s Omnibus (1842) 238, portrait ; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 402–5.