Kate Vaughan
Kate Vaughan (1855-1903) British actress, dancer.
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Biography
Kate Vaughan was the stage name of Catherine Alice Candelin.
After performing as a young girl, Vaughan had a seven-year engagement at the Gaiety Theatre in London from 1876 to 1883, where she joined its Victorian burlesque troupe that included Nellie Farren and Edward Terry. In 1884 she married Colonel the Hon Frederick Arthur Wellesley, youngest son of the 1st Earl Cowley. She retired from dancing in 1885 and soon began to tour in classic comedies with considerable success.
From about 1896 her health began to deteriorate, and on medical advice she spent some time in Australia in that year. Vaughan died in 1903 in Johannesburg, South Africa, during an unsuccessful tour starting in Cape Town. She was buried in Braamfontein cemetery in Johannesburg where one of her pall bearers was her former colleague at the Gaiety, Edward Terry
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Her company presented The Dancing Girl and Becky Sharp at the Opera House, Cape Town and Sherlock Holmes, Private Detective and Becky Sharp at the Gaiety Theatre, Johannesburg - all in 1902.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Vaughan
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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