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'''Ada Dorée''' (1850 – 28 April 1916) was an English singer and actor who performed in [[operetta]], [[Victorian burlesque]], and [[pantomime]] between the 1870s and the 1890s. In her early life she was '''Ada Catherine Elizabeth Earée''', and in her later years she used the name '''Ada Dorée-Thorne''', adding that of her husband.
==Life==
Dorée was born in [[Cockermouth]], Cumberland, in 1850, as Ada Earée, the daughter of William Earée, a [[Church of England]] clergyman, and trained as a singer at the [[Guildhall School of Music]], on a scholarship. She sang with a group known as the Philothespians and the South Kensington Amateurs before gaining many roles in [[operetta]], [[Victorian burlesque]], and [[pantomime]] between the 1870s and the 1890s.<ref name=stone>David Stone, [https://ift.tt/2wE2KNR "Ada Dorée (1884-85)"], Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, at gsarchive.net, 6 May 2007, accessed 11 April 2020</ref><ref name=BNP>"Alphamstone Marriage of the Rev. R. B. Earee" in ''The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald'', 15 August 1876, p. 6</ref>
In February 1884, Dorée joined the chorus of the new [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company|D'Oyly Carte]] touring company “A”. In August of that year, at [[Portsea, Portsmouth#Portsea|Portsea]], she married another member of the company, [[Eric Thorne]];<ref name=portsea>"Thorne Eric & Earee Ada Catherine E" in Marriages for Portsea, vol. 2b (1884), p. 840</ref> after the [[Banns of marriage]] had been published for Frederick Thomas Thorne "of this parish", and Ada Catherine Elizabeth Earée, of [[Alphamstone]].<ref>"Banns Published 13th, 20th, and 27th July 1884" in Banns book of Portsea Island, p. 214, www.ancestry.co.uk </ref><ref name=portsea/> Her father was by then the Rector there, and her brother, [[Robert Brisco Earée]] was also a clergyman.<ref name=BNP/>
In October 1884, the D'Oyly Carte revived ''[[The Sorcerer]]'' at the [[Savoy Theatre]], and Dorée was sent there to perform a leading [[contralto]] part, Mrs Partlett. She continued with this until March 1885, then took the same role on tour until 9 May, when the production closed and Dorée left the Carte organization.<ref name=stone/>
Dorée’s daughter Gladys Edith Hilda Earée Thorne was born at Alphamstone on 17 June 1885 and baptized there a few weeks later.<ref name=gladys>"Doree-Thorne Gladys Edith H 17JE1885" in Deaths for Worthing, vol. 18 (1979), p. 2,496; "Gladys Edith Hilda Earee Thorne", Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1918, Alphamstone St Barnabas, Essex, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 9 April 2020 </ref>
Dorée remained active in musical theatre. In the spring of 1888, she and Thorne both played in a touring production of ''The Punch Bowl'', a musical comedy about a prince who believes he is invisible.<ref>[[Kurt Gänzl]], ''The British musical theatre'', Vol. 1 (Macmillan, 1986), p. 349</ref> In September of the same year, they both appeared in ''Carina'' at the [[Opera Comique]] in [[City of Westminster|Westminster]],<ref>"Carina, Tonight" in ''[[St James's Gazette]]'', 28 September 1888, p. 1</ref> and in 1889 both performed in ''Faddimar'' at the Vaudeville Theatre.<ref name=stone/> In the autumn of 1889, Dorée toured with [[Auguste van Biene]] in ''[[Faust up to Date]]''. She was in a pantomime at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] in 1890/1891, ''Faust up to Date'' again at the Gaiety Theatre in 1892, ''The Piper of Hamelin'', ''A Modern Don Quixote'', and ''Masters Sandford and Merton '' in 1893, and the burlesque ''Jaunty Jane Shore'' in 1894.<ref name=stone/>
In 1904, as "Madam Ada Dorée", she was left an [[annuity]], and a pony and trap, in the will of Thomas Craigie Glover, of Edinburgh, to thank her for looking after him following the death of his wife in 1895.<ref name=eliehistory>[https://ift.tt/2XAszcJ Potted History No 2: Earlsferry House – Part 2 – The Glovers], eliehistory.com</ref> On 2 April 1911, as Ada Dorée-Thorne, she made a Census return for 4, Wharfedale Street, [[Earl's Court]], stating herself as head of the household, living on a "small annuity". With her was her unmarried daughter Gladys Dorée-Thorne, one servant, the servant's husband, and a visitor.<ref>Ada Dorée-Thorne, [[1911 United Kingdom census]] return for 4, Wharfedale Street, Earl’s Court S.W., ancestry.co.uk, accessed 9 April 2020 .</ref> On 28 April 1916, Ada Dorée-Thorne died at St Saviour's Hospital, [[St Pancras, London]], aged 66,<ref name=eliehistory/><ref>"Thorne Ada C E, 66" in ''Register of Deaths for Pancras Registration District'', vol. 1b (1916), p. 9</ref> leaving an estate valued at £1,589, with her daughter as executor.<ref>"Doree-Thorne Ada otherwise Thorne (wife of Eric Thorne)", Probate Index for England and Wales, 1916, probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2020</ref>
==Aftermath==
Within a few weeks of Dorée‘s death, her husband married again.<ref>"Murdoch Katie S and Thorne Frederick T" in ''Register of Marriages for Brentford Registration District'', vol. 3a (1916), p. 372</ref> In 1922, he died at a nursing home in [[Marylebone]], leaving an estate valued for probate at £10,968, .<ref name=probate1923>[https://ift.tt/2V7QIWA "Thorne, Frederick Thomas of 1a Castletown-road West Kensington"], Probate Index for England and Wales 1923, at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2020: "Probate London 30 January to Katie Seager Thorne widow. Effects £10,968 11s 2d."</ref>
Their daughter Gladys remained unmarried and died at the age of 94 in [[Worthing]], on 22 December 1979. Probate was granted in the name of Gladys Edith Hilda Earee Doree-Thorne.<ref name=gladys/><ref>"Doree-Thorne, Gladys Edith Hilda Earee", Probate Index for England and Wales, 1980, probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2020</ref>
==Notes==
==External links==
*David Stone, [https://ift.tt/2yTGwIr Eric Thorne], in Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at gsarchive.net
[[Category:1850 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century English singers]]
[[Category:20th-century English singers]]
[[Category:English musical theatre actors]]
==Life==
Dorée was born in [[Cockermouth]], Cumberland, in 1850, as Ada Earée, the daughter of William Earée, a [[Church of England]] clergyman, and trained as a singer at the [[Guildhall School of Music]], on a scholarship. She sang with a group known as the Philothespians and the South Kensington Amateurs before gaining many roles in [[operetta]], [[Victorian burlesque]], and [[pantomime]] between the 1870s and the 1890s.<ref name=stone>David Stone, [https://ift.tt/2wE2KNR "Ada Dorée (1884-85)"], Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, at gsarchive.net, 6 May 2007, accessed 11 April 2020</ref><ref name=BNP>"Alphamstone Marriage of the Rev. R. B. Earee" in ''The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald'', 15 August 1876, p. 6</ref>
In February 1884, Dorée joined the chorus of the new [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company|D'Oyly Carte]] touring company “A”. In August of that year, at [[Portsea, Portsmouth#Portsea|Portsea]], she married another member of the company, [[Eric Thorne]];<ref name=portsea>"Thorne Eric & Earee Ada Catherine E" in Marriages for Portsea, vol. 2b (1884), p. 840</ref> after the [[Banns of marriage]] had been published for Frederick Thomas Thorne "of this parish", and Ada Catherine Elizabeth Earée, of [[Alphamstone]].<ref>"Banns Published 13th, 20th, and 27th July 1884" in Banns book of Portsea Island, p. 214, www.ancestry.co.uk </ref><ref name=portsea/> Her father was by then the Rector there, and her brother, [[Robert Brisco Earée]] was also a clergyman.<ref name=BNP/>
In October 1884, the D'Oyly Carte revived ''[[The Sorcerer]]'' at the [[Savoy Theatre]], and Dorée was sent there to perform a leading [[contralto]] part, Mrs Partlett. She continued with this until March 1885, then took the same role on tour until 9 May, when the production closed and Dorée left the Carte organization.<ref name=stone/>
Dorée’s daughter Gladys Edith Hilda Earée Thorne was born at Alphamstone on 17 June 1885 and baptized there a few weeks later.<ref name=gladys>"Doree-Thorne Gladys Edith H 17JE1885" in Deaths for Worthing, vol. 18 (1979), p. 2,496; "Gladys Edith Hilda Earee Thorne", Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1918, Alphamstone St Barnabas, Essex, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 9 April 2020 </ref>
Dorée remained active in musical theatre. In the spring of 1888, she and Thorne both played in a touring production of ''The Punch Bowl'', a musical comedy about a prince who believes he is invisible.<ref>[[Kurt Gänzl]], ''The British musical theatre'', Vol. 1 (Macmillan, 1986), p. 349</ref> In September of the same year, they both appeared in ''Carina'' at the [[Opera Comique]] in [[City of Westminster|Westminster]],<ref>"Carina, Tonight" in ''[[St James's Gazette]]'', 28 September 1888, p. 1</ref> and in 1889 both performed in ''Faddimar'' at the Vaudeville Theatre.<ref name=stone/> In the autumn of 1889, Dorée toured with [[Auguste van Biene]] in ''[[Faust up to Date]]''. She was in a pantomime at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] in 1890/1891, ''Faust up to Date'' again at the Gaiety Theatre in 1892, ''The Piper of Hamelin'', ''A Modern Don Quixote'', and ''Masters Sandford and Merton '' in 1893, and the burlesque ''Jaunty Jane Shore'' in 1894.<ref name=stone/>
In 1904, as "Madam Ada Dorée", she was left an [[annuity]], and a pony and trap, in the will of Thomas Craigie Glover, of Edinburgh, to thank her for looking after him following the death of his wife in 1895.<ref name=eliehistory>[https://ift.tt/2XAszcJ Potted History No 2: Earlsferry House – Part 2 – The Glovers], eliehistory.com</ref> On 2 April 1911, as Ada Dorée-Thorne, she made a Census return for 4, Wharfedale Street, [[Earl's Court]], stating herself as head of the household, living on a "small annuity". With her was her unmarried daughter Gladys Dorée-Thorne, one servant, the servant's husband, and a visitor.<ref>Ada Dorée-Thorne, [[1911 United Kingdom census]] return for 4, Wharfedale Street, Earl’s Court S.W., ancestry.co.uk, accessed 9 April 2020 .</ref> On 28 April 1916, Ada Dorée-Thorne died at St Saviour's Hospital, [[St Pancras, London]], aged 66,<ref name=eliehistory/><ref>"Thorne Ada C E, 66" in ''Register of Deaths for Pancras Registration District'', vol. 1b (1916), p. 9</ref> leaving an estate valued at £1,589, with her daughter as executor.<ref>"Doree-Thorne Ada otherwise Thorne (wife of Eric Thorne)", Probate Index for England and Wales, 1916, probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2020</ref>
==Aftermath==
Within a few weeks of Dorée‘s death, her husband married again.<ref>"Murdoch Katie S and Thorne Frederick T" in ''Register of Marriages for Brentford Registration District'', vol. 3a (1916), p. 372</ref> In 1922, he died at a nursing home in [[Marylebone]], leaving an estate valued for probate at £10,968, .<ref name=probate1923>[https://ift.tt/2V7QIWA "Thorne, Frederick Thomas of 1a Castletown-road West Kensington"], Probate Index for England and Wales 1923, at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2020: "Probate London 30 January to Katie Seager Thorne widow. Effects £10,968 11s 2d."</ref>
Their daughter Gladys remained unmarried and died at the age of 94 in [[Worthing]], on 22 December 1979. Probate was granted in the name of Gladys Edith Hilda Earee Doree-Thorne.<ref name=gladys/><ref>"Doree-Thorne, Gladys Edith Hilda Earee", Probate Index for England and Wales, 1980, probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 11 April 2020</ref>
==Notes==
==External links==
*David Stone, [https://ift.tt/2yTGwIr Eric Thorne], in Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at gsarchive.net
[[Category:1850 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century English singers]]
[[Category:20th-century English singers]]
[[Category:English musical theatre actors]]
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