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Charlotte Tidswell
(1759 c.-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Tidswell, Charlotte, 1759 or 60-1846
DNB:    Tidswell, Charlotte (1759/60–1846), actress
LBT ID: ChTidsw1846    VIAF ID: 100750460    LOC ID: no2009139522
B/BAP:   1759
DIED:   1846-09-03
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Actress at Drury Lane who specialized in chambermaid roles. At one time mistress to the duke of Norfolk, she raised Edmund Kean, by some thought to be her son. Charles Lamb described her as “the worst actress ever seen or heard.”
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