Ada Dorée

She sang with groups known as the Philothespians and the South Kensington Amateurs before gaining professional roles in operetta, Victorian burlesque, and pantomime between the 1870s and the 1890s.

[1][2] In February 1884, Dorée joined a D'Oyly Carte touring company playing the contralto role of Lady Blanche in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida.

[2] In October 1884, D'Oyly Carte revived The Sorcerer at the Savoy Theatre, and Dorée was sent there to perform the secondary contralto part, Mrs Partlett.

[1] 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.

[8] 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".