Maria Gibbs

John Palmer, her godfather, brought her on the stage at the Haymarket, where, on 18 June 1783, she made her first appearance as Sally in Man and Wife by George Colman the Elder.

After one season at the Haymarket, Miss Logan accompanied Palmer in his unfortunate expedition to the Royalty Theatre in Wellclose Square.

Oxberry speaks of her as possessing genius, talent, and industry, adding that her Curiosa in the ‘Cabinet’ is one of the richest specimens of extant comic acting.

In such parts as Nell in The Devil to Pay she rivalled Mrs. Davison or Fanny Kelly, though surpassed both in vivacity and the "fullness and jollity" of her voice.

The Monthly Mirror reported in August 1800 that, "in consequence of the secession of Mrs. Stephen Kemble, she has deservedly occupied all characters of tender simplicity and unaffected elegance."

[4] In her will she left valuable personal items of jewellery to her son John George Nathaniel Gibbes, daughter-in-law Elizabeth and grandson George Harvey Gibbes, but the residue of her estate was bequeathed to her friend Mary Ann Griesbach "for her own sole and separate use and independent of her husband".