Ada Ferrar

The officers and workmen of the Ffrwd Works, her father-in-law's colliery, presented the couple with a "very chaste silvered tea and coffee service" with their best wishes.

[17] During the tour she took part in many productions including playing Josephine in A Royal Divorce, Princess Flavia in The Prisoner of Zenda and Mercia in The Sign of the Cross.

[19] In May 1902 Ferrar played Mrs. Llewellyn in The Finding of Nancy at the St. James's Theatre opposite Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Mabel Beardsley.

[20] She was Mrs. Dudley in Secret and Confidential at the Comedy Theatre (1902),[21] and for Benson's 1903 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon she played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream,[22] Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor; she was 'a winsome and dignified' Hermione in The Winter's Tale;[23] Gertrude in Hamlet, Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew in addition to Olivia in Twelfth Night, Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, Constance Neville in She Stoops to Conquer and Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandal.

Ferrar also toured as Ben Greet's leading lady, playing Viola in Twelfth Night, Peg Woffington in Masks and Faces, Dora in Diplomacy and Rosamund in Sowing the Wind.

[27] In 1917 she was touring the provinces as Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez in Charley's Aunt for the Brandon Thomas Company in a cast that included a young Leslie Howard as Jack Chesney.

Full of graceful naturalness...'[29] and 'Miss Ada Ferrar makes Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez an exceedingly delightful and pleasing personality.