Doris Mary Stocker (Lady Segrave) (1886 – 16 December 1968) was a British actress and singer, especially in Edwardian musical comedy.

Early life and career

She was born in Bombay in India in 1886, the second of three children of George Stocker (1857–1929), an engineer, and Mary Dunn ''née'' Johnston (1862–1946). While her father remained in India for work her mother returned to England with the children where they lived in London from at least 1891 to 1911. Her older sister Blanche Stocker was also a stage actress and singer. Stocker began her career as a chorus girl under George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre in London and soon played roles in West End theatres: Grace Hufnagle in ''Captain Kidd'' at Wyndham's Theatre (1904); J. P. Wearing
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'' at Daly's Theatre (1904); Pepzi in '' A Waltz Dream'' at Daly's (1911); Lady Diana Camden in '' Theodore & Co'' at the Gaiety (1912); Gipsy Dancer in '' Gipsy Love'' at Daly's (1912); and the Honorable Baby Vereker in '' To-Night's the Night'' at the Shubert Theatre in New York (1914), repeating the role in London at the Gaiety (1915).

War, marriage and death

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, whom she hardly knew, on a Japanese steamer to Sarawak, Malaysia, to visit Charles Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. At Marylebone, London, on 4 October 1917 she married Sir Henry O'Neal De Hane Segrave (1896–1930), then serving in the war as a Captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the

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. After her marriage she retired from the stage. Stocker died in

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, London, in 1968, leaving £76,135 in her will.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995 for Doris Mary Segrave
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References

External links

Photographic portraits of Doris Stocker
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