Doris Stocker

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

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.

[citation needed] 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);[2] Angy Loftus in The Cingalee at Daly's Theatre (1904); Pepzi in A Waltz Dream at Daly's (1911); Lady Diana Camden in Theodore & Co at the Gaiety (1912);[2] Gipsy Dancer in Gipsy Love at Daly's (1912);[3] and the Honorable Baby Vereker in To-Night's the Night at the Shubert Theatre in New York (1914),[4] repeating the role in London at the Gaiety (1915).

[5] In 1915 at the height of World War I she accompanied Sylvia Brett and Charles Vyner Brooke, whom she hardly knew, on a Japanese steamer to Sarawak, Malaysia, to visit Charles Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.