NICOL

Emma (eld. dau. of Mrs. Nicol, actre , who d. about 1834). b. 1801; appeared at Edinburgh as a dancer 2 May 1808; played at the Royal or Minor theatre, Edinb. 1808–24; played Flora in The Wonder at Drury Lane 9 Nov. 1824, acted there till 1829, then at Surrey theatre 1830–1; played old-women parts at T.R. Edinb. 1834–59; played Mrs. Macleary in Waverley 18 Sept. 1852, and Marjory in The heart of Mid loth i an 4 Oct. 1852; was the original hon. Mrs. Falconer in Ebsworth’s comedy £150,000, 1 Sept. 1854, and Matty Hepburn in Ballan tine’s Gaberlunzie Man 7 June 1858; played Mrs. Major de Boots in Coyne’s Everybody’s Friend at New Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 25 June 1859, and Queen Elizabeth in the burlesque of Kenilworth 6 Aug. 1859; made her last appearance 31 May 1862 as the Hoste in The Honeymoon; her best parts were Meg in Twas I, and Mi Lucretia Mactab in The poor gentleman. d. London Nov. 1877. J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of the Edinburgh stage (1888) 361, 476.