Edward Stirling (playwright)

Around age 20 he began his stage career first as an actor in the provinces, then as actor/stage manager at the Adelphi, London for Frederick Henry Yates, later took on production at other theatres, finally at Drury Lane.

Her career blossomed when she took Helen Faucit's part in the role of Clara in Lytton’s play Money.

Their daughter, Miss Fanny Stirling, made her appearance on the stage about 1860, and gained some reputation as an actress.

[15] In 1894, six weeks after Stirling's death, she married Lieut-Colonel Sir Charles Hutton Gregory, a well-known civil and military engineer.

The wedding was covered sympathetically by all the newspapers, whereas Stirling's death received no mention at the time, and later only in reference to this marriage, and in the most unflattering terms.