[1] Vincent, (real name Charles Panrucker Viner) was brought up destined for a career in the Church, but his interests lay in the theatre.
On 27 February 1864 they made their first appearance on the Melbourne stage with the drama Leah, or The Forsaken, adapted from Mosenthal's Deborah.
Other parts for which he was noted were Philip Faulconbridge in King John, Macbeth, Hamlet's father, and Joseph Surface in The School for Scandal.
No fears were held for his well-being, but two days later the thumb injury had spread in the form of erysipelas to the shoulder and by 7 May he had become delirious and the consulting doctors advised him to finalise his affairs which, being perfectly conscious, he was able to do.
After his death she used "Mrs Viner" professionally,[8] as when she was praised for her role as Marion Holcombe in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.