Lucy Isabella Buckstone

Lucy Isabella Buckstone (1859-1893) was an English actress and the daughter of John Baldwin Buckstone and Isabella Copeland.

Buckstone made her first appearance on stage at the Croydon Theatre as Gertrude in "The Little Treasure". She made her first appearance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 26 December 1875 Ada Ingot in "David Garrick". [ [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Buckstone%2C_John_Baldwin "John Baldwin Buckstone" in the 1911 "Encyclopedia Britannica"] ]

In 1876 at the Lyceum Theatre, she played Lady Frances Touchwood in "The Belle's Strategem" In 1877, she appeared as Minnie in "Engaged", a comedy by W. S. Gilbert at the Haymarket. [Ainger, p. 134] At the Olympic Theatre in 1883, she played Abigail Hill in "The Queen's Favorite" by Sydney Grundy. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=LaGEa8wxJsAC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=%22Lucy+Buckstone%22&source=web&ots=uL3qCpD0op&sig=1fdQ9zqrXI_fgoTiJVOWVlzk04Y&hl=en Mention of "The Queen's Favorite"] ]

On 6 January 1879, at St. James's, Piccadilly, Buckstone was married to H. E. Smithes.

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* [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=149714&imageID=115076&parent_id=142831&word=&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=2&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=1 Photo of Buckstone]
* [http://www.picturehistoryprints.com/product/id/20001 Another photo of Buckstone]