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[[File:Effie_Bancroft.jpg|thumb|Marie name Wilton =(later Effie Bancroft)]]
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| birth_name = Marie Effie Wilton
| birth_date = 1836
| birth_place = [[Doncaster]], England
| death_date = 1921 (age age 84 or 85)
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| occupation = [[actress]], [[theatre manager]]
| spouse = [[Squire Bancroft]]
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[[|thumb|Marie Wilton (later Effie Bancroft)]]
'''Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft''' (1836–1921) was an English actress and [[Actor-manager|theatre manager]]. She appeared onstage as '''Marie Wilton''' until after her marriage in December 1867 to [[Squire Bancroft]], when she adopted his last name. Bancroft and her husband were important in the development of [[Victorian era]] theatre through their presentation of innovative plays at the London theatres that they managed, first the [[Prince of Wales's Theatre]] and later the [[Haymarket Theatre]].
 
==Life and career==
Bancroft was born at [[Doncaster]], and as a child appeared on the [[Stage (theatre)|stage]] with her parents, who were both actors. Although her birth date is usually given as 1839, in fact she was born in 1836; she appeared as a 6-year-old at the [[Theatre Royal, Norwich|Norwich Theatre]] on 14 May 1842, reciting a 120-line poem from memory.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001669%2F18420521&page=3&article=047 |title=The Theatre|work=Norwich Mercury |date=21 May 1842|page=3}}</ref> (In her autobiography Bancroft characteristically took a year off her age, claiming "At the age of five I recited [[William Collins (poet)|Collins]]'s ''Ode to the Passions''".)<ref name=OnandOff>{{cite book |last1=Bancroft |first1=Mr & Mrs |title=Mr & Mrs Bancroft On and Off the Stage |date=1889 |publisher=Richard Bentley and Son |location=London |page=4}}</ref> Among her early parts was that of Fleance in ''[[Macbeth]]'' (1846). She made her London début on 15 September 1856, at the [[Lyceum Theatre (London)|Lyceum Theatre]], as the boy Henri in ''Belphegor'', playing the same night in ''Perdita; or, the Royal Milkmaid''.<ref name=OnandOff/>
 
She won great popularity in several boy roles, in [[Victorian burlesque|burlesque]]s at various theatres, as Cupid in two different plays, and notably as Pippo, in ''The Maid and the Magpie'', by [[Henry James Byron|H. J. Byron]], at the [[Royal Strand Theatre]] (1858). For several years she remained at the Strand, taking numerous parts of the same general type. A benefit performance was given for her in 1859.<ref>{{cite news|title=Strand|newspaper= [[The Era (newspaper)|The Era]] |date= 3 July 1859 |page= 11}}</ref>
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