Mary Bradshaw

Mary Bradshaw (died 1780) was a British stage actress at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for 37 years.

[2] In 1760[3] she was the first person to play the nurse in Polly Honeycombe and this became "her part" appearing in that role when it was put on.

Samuel De Wilde reproduced a portrait of Bradshaw by extracting the figure from Zoffany's painting.

[4] In 1767 she appeared as Dorcas who is a deaf woman in her seventies who arrives on stage in David Garrick's Cymon to sing of her age.

[2] Bradshaw died in Plymouth in 1780 after her daughter, Elizabeth, was booed off the stage.

David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick 's " The Farmer's Return " by Johan Joseph Zoffany