Hilda Hanbury

[1] Hanbury was born in St Pancras, London to surveyor and estate agent Matthew Henry Alcock (1841–1911) and his wife Elisabeth née Davis (1845–1916).

In 1891, as a teenager, she made her stage debut as Nancy Ditch in Robert Williams Buchanan's play Miss Tomboy in London's West End.

In August/September 1901 she appeared at the Imperial Theatre in London as Mrs. Prescott in Boyle Lawrence's military drama A Man of His Word opposite H. B.

[7][8] She was also part of the American premiere cast of the play A Bunch of Violets by Sydney Grundy at Abbey's Theatre in New York in February 1895 with the role of Countess Volkker.

[1] She and Arthur Fox divorced in 1923 following his adultery with an American woman, throwing Hanbury and her children into sudden financial difficulties.

Photo of a white woman with red hair. She is wearing a silk beigh dress with red scarf around her waist. She is wearing gold hairband and long necklace with pearls and semi precious stones. She is wearing bangles of similar design. She has her arms under her head, in the back of her neck. She is looking at the camera. The background is dark blue. "Hilda Hanbury" is written in white cursive writing on left botton corner.
Hilda Hanbury in 1904
Cigarette card as Mrs. Clarence in the comedy A Message from Mars (1900)