Mrs Patrick Campbell (9 February 1865 – 9 April 1940) was a British stage actress.
Campbell was born Beatrice Stella Tanner in Kensington, London, to John Tanner and Maria Luigia Giovanna, daughter of Count Angelo Romanini. She studied for a short time at the Guildhall School of Music.
Her first marriage, from which she took the name by which she is generally known, produced two children, Alan Urquhart('Beo') and Stella, and ended with the death ...
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Mrs Patrick Campbell (9 February 1865 – 9 April 1940) was a British stage actress.
Campbell was born Beatrice Stella Tanner in Kensington, London, to John Tanner and Maria Luigia Giovanna, daughter of Count Angelo Romanini. She studied for a short time at the Guildhall School of Music.
Her first marriage, from which she took the name by which she is generally known, produced two children, Alan Urquhart('Beo') and Stella, and ended with the death of her first husband in the Boer War in 1900.
Fourteen years later, Campbell became the second wife of George Cornwallis-West, a dashing writer and soldier previously married to Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill.
She was well-known as an amateur before she made her stage debut in 1888 at the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool, four years after her marriage to Patrick Campbell. In March, 1890, she appeared in London at the Adelphi, where she afterward played again in 1891–93. She became successful as a result of starring in Sir Arthur...
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