Edward Loomis Davenport

Edward Loomis Davenport (1816 – September 1, 1877) was an American actor.

Edward Loomis Davenport
Born	1816 Boston
Died	(1877-09-01)September 1, 1877 Canton, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Occupation	actor
Spouse	Fanny Vining ​ (m. 1849)​
Children	9, including Fanny and Harry
Relatives	May Davenport Seymour (granddaughter), Anne Seymour (great-granddaughter)

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

He died in Canton, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Family

In 1849, he had married Fanny Vining, an English actress. Their son Harry Davenport (1866–1949) and daughter Fanny Davenport (1850–1898) were also actors.^[2][3]

References

1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Davenport, Edward Loomis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 852–853.
2. Chisholm 1911.
3. K. D. Reynolds, ‘Vining family (per. 1807–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 27 Dec 2016

External links

• Edward Loomis Davenport at the Internet Broadway Database

• Media related to Edward Loomis Davenport at Wikimedia Commons