Lucy Isabella Buckstone

She first appeared at the Haymarket Theatre on 26 December 1875 as Ada Ingot in David Garrick, and later played Florence Trenchard in Our American Cousin and Lucy Dorrison in Home, from the French L’Adventuriér by Emile Augier.

[5] In June 1876 she appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre as Maria in a testimonial performance of School for Scandal held in behalf of her father.

[7] On 6 January 1879, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Buckstone was married to Henry Edwards Smithes, the son of a wealthy London wine merchant.

Her husband owned a large tract of cattle land near Victoria, Kansas, and for a time she joined him there, though eventually she returned to England after tiring of life on the prairie.

[8][9] In December 1882 Buckstone joined Genevieve Ward at the Olympic Theatre playing Alice in the Merivale and Grove drama, Forget-Me-Not, and the following year she played Abigail Hill in The Queen’s Favorite by Sydney Grundy, followed by Gladys Grant in Rachel, Lucy Bertram in Guy Mannering and Bertha de Mottrville in A Great Catch.