EDWIN

Elizabeth Rebecca ( dau. of Mr. Richards of Dublin, actor ). b. 1769; first appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin when aged 8; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 13 Nov. 1789; played chief characters in comedy at nearly all the west-end theatres; retired about 1822. ( m. 1791 John Edwin the younger, comedian 1768–1805). d. at her lodgings in Chelsea 3 Aug. 1854. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actre es i , 103–20 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv , 199–209 (1826), portrait ; Theatrical Inquisitor vi , 163–65 (1815) portrait .