Nellie Briercliffe

After playing in the provinces early in her career, Briercliffe joined the D'Oyly Carte in 1914, touring for over three years in the Gilbert and Sullivan soubrette roles.

[5] Briercliffe left the D'Oyly Carte company in January 1918 and appeared in London in the musical comedy Pamela, at the Palace Theatre with Lily Elsie and Owen Nares.

[12] In 1920 she returned to musical comedy in London, appearing with Jack Buchanan in Wild Geese by Ronald Jeans and Charles Cuvillier;[13] as Dulcenea in Oh!

She filed for divorce from her husband in 1926[20] and returned to the West End in January 1927 in John Galsworthy's drama, Escape,[5] and in the same year succeeded her sister-in-law, Mabel Russell Philipson, as Blanquette in The Beloved Vagabond, at the New Theatre.

[23] After the season ended, she appeared in Fountain of Youth, "an amusing comic opera of country life," by W. Graham Robertson with music by Alfred Reynolds at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith,[24] and finally in a non-musical costume drama, The Immortal Lady by Clifford Bax in 1931.

[5] Briercliffe participated in all seven D'Oyly Carte recordings made for HMV between 1929 and 1932, as Phoebe, Edith, Iolanthe, Hebe, Angela, Margaret and Melissa.