Bellamy

Bellamy, GEORGE ANNE, an English actress, born most likely at Lisbon in 1727, was the natural daughter of a Quaker school-girl and Lord Tyravley, by whom she was educated. Having forfeited his favour by going to live with her mother, she secured an engagement at Covent Garden in 1744, and appeared with Quin as Monimia in The Orphan. Mrs Bellamy's professional career was brilliant; but her extravagance and profligacy were notorious. In 1785, after many alternations of fortune, a 'free benefit' released her from the debtors' prison, and in the same year she published an 'Apology' for her life (6 vols.). She died in 1788.