Evelyn D'Alroy
English actress (1882–1915)
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Evelyn D'Alroy (1882–1915;[1] née Evelyn May Tegg, and on marriage Evelyn Watson), was an Edwardian English stage actress of considerable renown.
She took to the stage in 1899,[2] and made her London debut as the Duchesse de Longueville in a period piece, The Bond of Ninon by Clotilde Graves, at the Savoy Theatre in April 1906.[3]
Her first considerable success was as Mrs. Cray in “The Builders” by Norah Keith at the Criterion on 10 November 1908.[4] She then joined the Lewis Waller Players and regularly worked at London's Lyric Theatre.[3][5]
In September 1909 she was taken on by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre.[3][4] Her favourite role to play was reputedly Shakespeare's Ophelia.[6] Portraits of Evelyn in various theatrical productions are held by the National Portrait Gallery.[1]
In April 1915 while on tour she was taken ill suddenly in Sheffield with appendicitis. She was operated on at the hospital, and her appendix removed, and taken to a nursing home to recover, but died three days later of pneumonia with her husband—theatre critic Thomas Malcolm Watson—at her side.[5]