# Amy Coleridge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Amy_Coleridge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Amy_Coleridge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coleridge > Source revision: 1223429542 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Amy Coleridge Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News 1886 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Amy Coleridge - ''[The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News](/source/The_Illustrated_Sporting_and_Dramatic_News)'' (1886)]] '''Amy Coleridge''' (25 May 1864 – 4 August 1951) was a British actress who had a successful career playing in Shakespeare's plays in South Africa as well as in her home country. She acted in the companies of [Henry Irving](/source/Henry_Irving) and [John Martin-Harvey](/source/John_Martin-Harvey). == Biography == === Early life === She was born as Amy Matilda Cowlrick at [St Pancras](/source/St_Pancras%2C_London) in London in 1864,[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/7814/LNDRG13_77_78-0622/21530253?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/60367813/person/412134022224/facts/citation/1122186604543/edit/record 1901 England Census for Amy Haviland London: Chelsea - Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}] the daughter of Adelaide ''née'' Jackson (1839–) and Charles Cowlrick (1837–1922), a commercial clerk. === First marriage and acting career (1884 – 1906) === She married the English actor [William Haviland](/source/William_Haviland_(actor)) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago) on 1 February 1884. They had two children, the actor Frederick Alexander Irwin (1884-1924) and Ellen Winifred Irwin (1887-) but were divorced in 1904 following her adultery with the actor [Percy Anstey](/source/Percy_Anstey) (1876–1920).[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2465/40243_625988_4438-00000/16617#?imageId=40243_625988_4438-00006 England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918: 1904 - Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}] In 1886 she and her husband were at the [Lyceum Theatre](/source/Lyceum_Theatre%2C_London) in the company of [Henry Irving](/source/Henry_Irving) for whom she played Alice in ''Faust'' (1886),Programme for [Henry Irving](/source/Henry_Irving)'s production of ''Faust'' - 16 April 1887 - the Glenn Christodoulou Theatre Collection Ursula in ''[Much Ado About Nothing](/source/Much_Ado_About_Nothing)'',[J. P. Wearing](/source/J._P._Wearing), [https://books.google.com/books?id=nF8pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''], Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books p. 49 and Julie Lesurques in ''[The Lyons Mail](/source/The_Lyons_Mail_(play))'' (1893).Wearing, ''The London Stage 1890-1899'', p. 162 She acted in ''[The Lady of Lyons](/source/The_Lady_of_Lyons)'' alongside her husband in [John Martin-Harvey](/source/John_Martin-Harvey)'s [Lyceum Theatre Company](/source/Lyceum_Theatre%2C_London) tour of the provinces in 1888.[https://theatricalia.com/play/7/the-lady-of-lyons/production/4tf Tour of ''The Lady of Lyons'' (1888) - Theatricalia website] She and Haviland returned to South Africa as members of the Holloway Theatre Company in 1895 where she played [Desdemona](/source/Desdemona) in ''[Othello](/source/Othello)'' and [Cordelia](/source/Cordelia) in ''[King Lear](/source/King_Lear)'' on tour.[https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Criticism/shakespearein/sa3/index.html Shakespeare in South Africa: The Earlier Twentieth Century - Internet Shakespeare Editions] In 1897 she returned to tour South Africa with the Haviland and Lawrence Shakespearian & Dramatic Company in their season of Shakespearian plays directed by her husband [William Haviland](/source/William_Haviland_(actor)) and co-starring Haviland and his co-manager [Gerald Lawrence](/source/Gerald_Lawrence). By 1900 she and her husband William Haviland were in London with the company of [John Martin-Harvey](/source/John_Martin-Harvey), for whom she appeared as Marie in ''Louis XI'' at the [Lyceum Theatre](/source/Lyceum_Theatre%2C_London) (1900),Wearing, ''The London Stage 1890-1899'', p. 16 joining him for his sixth tour of America in 1902 in three productions: ''A Cigarette Maker's Romance'', ''The Children of Kings'' and ''The Only Way''.[https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Amy-Coleridge/ Amy Coleridge and Broadway (1902) - broadwayworld.com][https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/amy-coleridge-35843 Amy Coleridge and Broadway (1902)] - [Internet Broadway Database](/source/Internet_Broadway_Database)[https://www.playbill.com/person/amy-coleridge-vault-0000034453 Amy Coleridge] - ''[Playbill](/source/Playbill)'' She appeared opposite Martin-Harvey as Margaret Hungerford in ''The Breed of the Treshams'' (1903). === Second marriage and later life (1906 – 1951) === In 1906, after her divorce from Haviland, she married the actor [Percy Anstey](/source/Percy_Anstey).[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8913/ONS_M19064AZ-1298/6574809 England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 for Amy Matilda Cowlrick: 1906, Q4-Oct-Nov-Dec - Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}] After divorcing Anstey she married Archibald Brough Pearce (1897–1962) in 1915.[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8913/ONS_M19151AZ-0177/6574808 England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 for Amy M Cowlrick: 1915, Q1-Jan-Feb-Mar - Ancestry.com {{subscription required}}] She is believed to have returned to South Africa to act for Leonard Rayne for some years, later becoming a speech and drama teacher. Amy Coleridge died in [Pietermaritzburg](/source/Pietermaritzburg), South Africa on 4 August 1951.{{Cn|date=February 2024}} ==References== {{commons category|Amy Coleridge}} {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleridge, Amy}} Category:1864 births Category:1951 deaths Category:Actresses from London Category:19th-century English actresses Category:20th-century English actresses Category:English stage actresses Category:English Shakespearean actresses Category:Women of the Victorian era Category:Actors from the London Borough of Camden Category:People from St Pancras, London --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Amy Coleridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coleridge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coleridge?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.