Squire Bancroft
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Sir Squire Bancroft, born Squire White Butterfield, was an English actor-manager. He changed his name to Squire Bancroft Bancroft by deed poll just before his marriage. He and his wife Effie Bancroft
Squire Bancroft (1841–1926)
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
Society (play)
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Society was a comedy drama by T. W. Robertson, premiered in 1865, regarded as a milestone in Victorian drama because of its realism in sets, costume, acting and dialogue. The piece, set in Victorian L
Squire Bancroft
…Bancrofts became joint managers of the theatre. Mr and Mrs Bancroft produced and starred in all the Thomas William Robertson comedies beginning in 1865: Society (1865), Ours (1866), Caste (1867), Play (1868), School (1869) and M.P. (1870), and, after Robertson's death, in revivals of the old comedies, for which…
Engraving of T. W. Robertson