Bancroft Collection

Billy Bancroft, Welsh international rugby player
William John Billy Bancroft (1871-1959), Welsh-born international rugby player who played for Swansea and Wales. He also played county cricket for Glamorgan. 1890s

Cartoon, theatre managers and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, theatre managers (Irving, Toole, James and Bancroft) besieging Queen Victoria at Windsor. Now that a rumour has gone abroad that Her Majesty will one more give theatrical entertainments at

W J Bancroft

Two dancing features from the Screen, December 1923: Lady Bancroft (Patricia Prevoss) with Lou Mason in Flaming Youth (First National) and a scene from The Darling of the Rich (Vitagraph) Date: 1923

REMAINS OF BANCROFT
For some reason, the coffin of Francis Bancroft is opened, and this is what is found... Date: 1818

Monument of Thomas Bancroft, Lord Mayors Officer, in the church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate Street. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of

View of Clarendon House, 17th century
View of Clarendon House from St. James Street, , from a rare print in the collection of Thmoas Allen. Classical mansion built by Roger Platt for Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, in 1664

Cartoon portrait, Sir Squire Bancroft, actor-manager
Cartoon portrait, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager. 1880s

Clubland caricatures: Garrick Club celebrities
Caricatures of some of the associates of the Garrick Club including; Sir Squire Bancroft, one of the trustees Lord Burnham, Gerall du Maurier, Seymour Hicks, Sir John Hare and Sir Arthur Pinero

Cartoon, The Theatrical Outlook, Squire Bancroft and John Hollingshead, theatre managers. I am going to get out of it before I am hurt

Cartoon, Squire Bancroft and General William Booth
Cartoon, Squire Bancroft, actor-manager, and General William Booth of the Salvation Army. To think the little house should come to this! I wonder if he will make as much money here as I did

Cartoon, Haymarket Theatre, London
Cartoon, Who will succeed the Bancrofts at the Haymarket? Three theatre managers look up and speculate. 1884

Squire Bancroft and Marie Effie Wilton, English actors
Cartoon, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, and his wife Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft (1839-1921), English actress and theatre manager

Cartoon, The Present Style - Squire Bancroft with Edward, Prince of Wales. 1884

S B Bancroft - The Theatre Magazine
S B Bancroft, actor - The Theatre Magazine, March 1883. 1883

Mr and Mrs Bancroft - The Theatre Magazine, August 1885. 1885

SQUIRE BANCROFT 1891
SIR SQUIRE BANCROFT English actor-manager Date: 1841 - 1926

Hotel Bancroft, Saginaw, Michigan, USA Date: 1930s

Mile End Old Town Workhouse, East London
Previously part of the Stepney Union, Mile End Old Town in East London became an independent Poor Law Hamlet in 1857. The following year, work began on its new workhouse located on Bancroft Road

Welsh International Rugby Football Team, 1895, at the time they played against England: Williams (Touch Judge), Jackson, Mills, Pearson, Boucher, Elsey, Selwyn Biggs, Nicholl, Hannen, Watts, Gould

Marie Bancroft / Picc 1889
MARIE EFFIE BANCROFT nee WILTON Actress, wife of Sir Squire Bancroft Date: 1839 - 1921

Cartoon, A W Pinero and Sir Squire Bancroft
Cartoon, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director, and Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager

Bancroft Hotel, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Bancroft Hotel, Franklin Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, opened in 1913. Date: circa 1913

Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft and Mowbray Morris
Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, and Mowbray Morris, theatre critic, with other critics in the background enjoying food and drink in the Critics Buffet

Cartoon, A Sunday Morning Performance -- various actors including Henry Irving and Squire Bancroft bathing in the sea. 1881

Caricature of the actor-manager Sir. Squire Bancroft
Caricature of the English actor-manager Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) -- The idea of summoning a society actor as a juryman at a coroners inquest! 1881

Caricature of Edward, Prince of Wales and Squire Bancroft
Caricature of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager. Bancroft speaks condescendingly to the Prince

Cartoon, A G Vance and fellow-theatricals Henry Irving, Squire Bancroft and J L Toole. Vance comments on the fact that they are going to visit the Prince of Wales at Marlborough House -- not to seem

Caricature of Squire Bancroft and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) and Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), both actor-managers. Bancroft is portrayed as Shylock wanting his pound of flesh

Cartoon, London theatre managers as firemen -- Something must be done to make the theatregoing public feel easy in their minds. Why not form a Managers Fire Brigade? 1881

Bancrofts Home
American historian George Bancrofts (1800, 1891) home at Round Hill, Northampton, Massachusetts, is served by a horse-drawn bus in which the great man no doubt travels to the railroad depot

George Bancroft as a young man
GEORGE BANCROFT (1800-1891) American statesman and historian, as a relatively young man, before he cultivated a moustache and let his beard spread. Date: Circa 1830

George Bancroft
GEORGE BANCROFT (1800-1891) American statesman and historian, towards the end of his life. With his autograph. Date: circa 1890

George Bancroft in later life
GEORGE BANCROFT (1800, 1891) American Historian Sitting at a table Date: circa 1880

Marie Effie Bancroft - English actress and theatre manager
Marie Effie Bancroft (18391921), English actress and theatre manager. Bancroft and her husband were important in the development of Victorian era theatre through their presentation of innovative

Sir Squire Bancroft - English actor-manager
Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager. He and his wife Marie Effie Bancroft are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as " drawing-room comedy" or "

Bancroft, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Bancroft, Hitchin, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1910s

England rugby victory 1914
A scene from the England v Wales rugby union match at Twickenham in the Five Nations Championship. England won 10-9 in a game in which the lead changed hands several times

Reverend Richard Bancroft
Rev. Bancroft (1544-1610) Archibishop of Canterbury - 1604 and Bishop of London. Anglican leader and chief overseer of the production of the King James Bible. Date: circa 1600

Mile End Old Town Workhouse, London
Previously part of the Stepney Union, Mile End Old Town became an independent Poor Law Hamlet in 1857. The following year, work began on its new workhouse located on Bancroft Road

One way to control the street boys. A common scene in the Bancroft-Foote Boys Club, New Haven, Conn. Location: New Haven, Connecticut. Date 1909 March

Frederick Bancroft, prince of magicians. Date c1895

Sir Squire Bancroft at Royal Levee, St Jamess Palace
Sir Squire Bancroft, English actor manager, dressed for a Royal Levee at St Jamess Palace, Central London

Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926)
Photographic portrait of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), the English actor-manager, pictured at the beginning of the 20th century

American celebrities, Literary Celebrities of New York, Geor
Portrait of American Historian, George Bancroft. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1800, he studied History at Havard and Gottingen Universities

Mr. S. Bancroft, Cyclist, 1896
Photograph of Mr. S. Bancroft, in his cycling clothes and with his safety bicycle, November 1896

Squire Bancroft / Phil May
SIR SQUIRE BANCROFT English actor-manager

Lady Bancroft / Marie
Marie Effie (nee Wilton), LADY BANCROFT Actress and Theatre Manager; married Sir Squire Bancroft, seen here in a flowery hat holding a bunch of flowers

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