Priscilla Kemble [née Hopkins]

(1758-1845)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kemble, Priscilla, 1758-1854 DNB: Kemble [née Hopkins; other married name Brereton], Priscilla (1758–1845), actress LBT ID: PrKembl1845 VIAF ID: 56174993 LOC ID: no91016593	B/BAP: 1758-12-17 DIED: 1845-05-13
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English actress; after an unhappy relationship with her first husband, William Brereton (1751–1787), she married John Philip Kemble in 1787.
REFERENCES TO Priscilla Kemble [née Hopkins]: Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, [June? 1825] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1825