Nellie Lamport

She was born and grew up in Southampton, Hampshire, England and joined the chorus of a travelling company. She married mining engineer Godfrey Stevenson and in 1911 they emigrated to Queensland. They later moved to Northwood, New South Wales, where she became an avid gardener.^[2]

She was a leading member of the Studio Theatre Club.^[3]

Lamport played in the radio serial Martin's Corner as Granny for its 12 years to late 1952.^[4] In the ABC radio serials The Lawsons and Blue Hills she took the part of Hilda.^[1]

Her husband died on 20 November 1941^[5] and Lamport sold up and moved into a house in Regent Street, Sydney.^[2]

She died on 23 June 1969, after four years' care in a private hospital in Sydney, aged 79.^[1] Her funeral was held at the Wayside Chapel. Actor Gordon Chater described her as "a splendid actress".^[1]

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