Cause of death typhoid fever Nationality British | Name Nelly Moore | |
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Known for a short successful life Died January 12, 1869, London, United Kingdom | ||
Nelly Moore or Eleanora Moore (1844/45 – 12 January 1869) was a British actress who died young.
Life
Moore died in London in 1869 aged 24 years old from typhoid fever. She first acted in Manchester and appeared in London at the St James's Theatre in the first showing of Cupid's Ladder by Leicester Buckingham. After that she returned to work under Alfred Wigan as Margaret Lovell in Tom Taylor's Up at the Hills In a short life Moore appeared in the first showing of several notable performances at the Haymarket Theatre, the Queen's and the Princesses. One of her performances moved Henry Sambrooke Leigh to write a verse in her honour. She came from an acting family. Her biography was included in the Dictionary of National Biography.
References
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