Maria Rebecca Davison [née Duncan]

(1780 c.-1858)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Davison, Maria Rebecca, d. 1858 DNB: Davison [née Duncan], Maria Rebecca (1780x83–1858), actress LBT ID: MaDavis1858 VIAF ID: 78999376 LOC ID: no2009028852	B/BAP: 1780 DIED: 1858-05-30
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English comic actress, who after a provincial career made her debut at Drury Lane in 1804; in 1812 she was unhappily married to James Davison (d. 1858).
REFERENCES TO Maria Rebecca Davison [née Duncan]: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 5 December 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Mary Lamb to Mary Matilda Betham, [6 March 1811] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 15 June 1813 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 3: 1813-15 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Letters: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 3