44-975: Patrick , Pat , or Paddy Campbell may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865–1940), British stage actress Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy (1913–1980), Irish-born British journalist, humorist and television personality Pat Campbell (broadcaster) (died 2021), American talk radio host Pat Campbell (cartoonist) , Australian cartoonist Military [ edit ] Patrick Campbell (British Army officer, born 1684) (1684–1751), British Army General and Member of Parliament Patrick Campbell (Royal Navy officer) (1773–1841), British Royal Navy officer Patrick Campbell (British Army officer, born 1779) (1779–1857), British Army Major General, British agent and Consul General in Egypt Patrick Campbell (INLA member) (1977–1999), Irish National Liberation Army volunteer who
88-533: A biography by Margot Peters, was published in 1984 by Hamish Hamilton. Also London-based, play publisher Samuel French released Mrs. Pat in October 2015, the script of a one-woman show by Anton Burge, to coincide with its production in the Minerva Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre , West Sussex. It was performed by Dame Penelope Keith DBE,DL. In 1957, the play Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty , an adaptation of
132-620: A busy commercial centre with many shops, typically upmarket. The street was declared London's second best shopping street in February 2005 due to its wide range and number of shops. However, since October 2008 the street has faced competition from the Westfield shopping centre in nearby White City. Kensington's second group of commercial buildings is at South Kensington , where several streets of small to medium-sized shops and service businesses are situated close to South Kensington tube station . This
176-602: A major star, Campbell assisted in the early careers of some noted actors, such as Gerald Du Maurier and George Arliss . In 1900, Campbell, having become her own manager/director, made her debut performance on Broadway in New York City in Heimat by Hermann Sudermann , a marked success. Subsequent appearances in New York and on tour in the U.S. established her as a major theatrical presence there. Campbell would regularly perform on
220-971: A short time at the Guildhall School of Music . Campbell made her professional stage debut in 1888 at the Alexandra Theatre , Liverpool, four years after her marriage to Patrick Campbell. In March 1890, she appeared in London at the Adelphi , where she afterward played again in 1891–93. She became successful after starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero 's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) at St. James's Theatre where she also appeared in The Masqueraders (1894). She had another success as Kate Cloud in John-a-Dreams (1894), produced by Beerbohm Tree at
264-590: A trait that it shares with Chelsea, its neighbour to the south. The area has some of London's most expensive streets and garden squares, and at about the turn of the 21st century the Holland Park neighbourhood became particularly high-status. In early 2007 houses sold in Upper Phillimore Gardens, immediately east of Holland Park , for over £20 million. Brompton is another definable area of Kensington. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea forms part of
308-450: Is Holland Park , on the north side of the eastern end of Kensington High Street. Many residential roads have small communal garden squares , for the exclusive use of the residents. The sub districts of Kensington: South Kensington and Earl's Court also consist largely of private housing. North Kensington and West Kensington are largely devoid of features to attract the visitor. Kensington is, in general, an extremely affluent area,
352-400: Is also the southern end of Exhibition Road , the thoroughfare which serves the area's museums and educational institutions. The boundaries of Kensington are not well-defined; in particular, the southern part of Kensington has conflicting and complex borders with Chelsea (another ancient manor) whether electoral or postal definitions are used, and has similar architecture. To the west, a border
396-627: Is clearly defined by the line of the Counter Creek marked by the West London railway line . To the north, the only obvious border line is Holland Park Avenue, to the north of which is the district of Notting Hill (another ancient manor), usually classed as within "North Kensington". In the north east is situated the large public Royal Park of Kensington Gardens (contiguous with its eastern neighbour, Hyde Park ). The other main green area in Kensington
440-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mrs Patrick Campbell Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner (9 February 1865 – 9 April 1940), better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat , was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare , Shaw and Barrie . She also toured the United States and appeared briefly in films. Campbell
484-655: Is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, which in the Anglo-Saxon language means "Chenesi's ton " (homestead/settlement). One early spelling is Kesyngton , as written in 1396. The manor of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex , was one of several hundred granted by King William the Conqueror (1066–1089) to Geoffrey de Montbray (or Mowbray), Bishop of Coutances in Normandy, one of his inner circle of advisors and one of
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#1732875611689528-649: Is taken up by Kensington Gardens , containing the Albert Memorial , the Serpentine Gallery and Speke 's monument. South Kensington and Gloucester Road are home to Imperial College London , the Royal College of Music , the Royal Albert Hall , Natural History Museum , Victoria and Albert Museum , and Science Museum . The area is also home to many embassies and consulates. The manor of Chenesitone
572-505: Is well served by public transport . Most of Kensington is served by three stations in the Travelcard Zone 1 : High Street Kensington , Gloucester Road and South Kensington . All three are served by the Circle line which connects them to London's railway terminals. The District line also serves all three stations, albeit on different branches; it links the latter two to Westminster and
616-582: The City . The Piccadilly line also links South Kensington and Gloucester Road to the West End in about 10 minutes, and in the other direction to Chiswick , Ealing , Hounslow and Heathrow Airport in around 20–40 minutes, depending on the area of choice. In addition Kensington (Olympia) in Travelcard Zone 2 serves the western part of Kensington, with District line trains to Earl's Court and High Street Kensington. Nearby West Kensington station takes its name from
660-494: The City of London . The building also houses Lebedev's TV channel London Live , with its news studio situated in part of the former department store, using St Mary Abbots church and Kensington Church Street as live backdrop. Kensington is crossed east–west by three main roads, the most important of which is the A4 Cromwell Road which connects it to Central London on the east and to Hounslow and Heathrow Airport on
704-810: The Haymarket , and again as Agnes in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith (1895) at the Garrick . Among her other performances were those in Fédora (1895), Little Eyolf (1896), and her notable performances with Forbes-Robertson at the Lyceum in London's West End in the roles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , Ophelia in Hamlet , and Lady Macbeth (1895–98) in Macbeth . Once established as
748-811: The Holiday Inn 's London Kensington Forum Hotel in Cromwell Road , a 27-storey building. Notable attractions and institutions in Kensington include Kensington Palace in Kensington Gardens, the Royal Albert Hall opposite the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, the Royal College of Music , the Natural History Museum , the Science Museum , the Victoria and Albert Museum , Heythrop College , Imperial College ,
792-565: The Indian Mutiny . Her mother, Louisa Joanna Romanini, was one of the eight daughters of Angelo Romanini of Brescia and Rosa née Polinelli of Milan . Angelo had joined the Carbonari and, as a result, had to leave Italy. He and his family travelled over Eastern Europe aided by a firman from the Sultan of Turkey. Six of his eight daughters, all under eighteen, married Englishmen. She studied for
836-631: The Royal College of Art , and Kensington and Chelsea College . The Olympia Exhibition Hall is just over the western border in West Kensington . Kensington is administered within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and lies within the Kensington parliamentary constituency. The head office of newspaper group DMGT is located in Northcliffe House off Kensington High Street in part of
880-493: The great hall of a manor house but in a courthouse. In order to differentiate it, the new sub-manor granted to Abingdon Abbey became known as Abbot's Kensington and the church St Mary Abbots . The original Kensington Barracks , built at Kensington Gate in the late 18th century, were demolished in 1858 and new barracks were built in Kensington Church Street. The focus of the area is Kensington High Street ,
924-703: The 1928 Ibsen Centennial staging of Ghosts (with John Gielgud as her son Oswald). Her last major stage role was in the Broadway production of Ivor Novello 's play A Party , where she portrayed the cigar-smoking, Pekingese -wielding actress Mrs. MacDonald – a clear takeoff on her own well-known persona – and made off with the best reviews. In her later years, Campbell made notable appearances in films, including One More River , Riptide (both 1934), and Crime and Punishment (1935). Her tendency, however, to reject roles that could have vitally helped her career in later years caused Alexander Woollcott to declare "... she
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#1732875611689968-627: The Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library , Harvard University. A number of her letters and her annotated script for Chester Bailey Fernald 's The Moonlight Blossom are in the theatre manuscripts collection of the Harry Ransom Center , University of Texas at Austin. The Ransom Center's collection of Shaw papers includes letters from Campbell, and the library includes a number of Shaw's published works from Campbell's private library. Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Pat Campbell ,
1012-591: The New York stage until 1933. Other performances included roles in The Joy of Living (1902), Pelléas et Mélisande (1904; as Melisande to the Pelleas of her friend Sarah Bernhardt ), Hedda Gabler (1907), Electra , The Thunderbolt (both 1908), and Bella Donna (1911). In 1914, she played Eliza Doolittle in the original West End production of Pygmalion , which George Bernard Shaw had expressly written for her. Although forty-nine years old when she originated
1056-467: The United States, but "made up her mind to marry a man [Beatrice] scarcely knew, who had lived in Africa for many years". In 1909, Campbell produced His Borrowed Plumes by Lady Randolph Churchill , whose husband, George Cornwallis-West, was "seriously attracted to me". They married on 6 April 1914, the day after the decree absolute of his divorce. Notwithstanding her second marriage, she continued to use
1100-516: The charging hours Monday-Friday to pay a daily fee of £8). In 2020 a temporary cycle lane on Kensington High Street caused a nationwide media stir. The temporary cycle lane was installed by the local council in September 2020 with £700,000 in funding from central government grants, but it was removed in December 2020. Kensington has one football team, Kensington Borough F.C. , which currently plays in
1144-665: The children to live on. When he returned in 1893, she saw that "his health and energies were undermined by fever, failure, and the most bitter disappointments". In mid-March 1900, Patrick returned to South Africa to join Lord Chesham's Yeomanry in the Boer War in 1900. He was killed in a charge at Boshof on 5 April, the same action in which Colonel George de Villebois-Mareuil died. Their son Beo worked as an actor and toured with his mother in 1908. Their daughter Stella (1886–1975) also joined her mother onstage, and toured with her in
1188-536: The epistolary exchanges between Campbell and Shaw, was first staged in Chicago. It has also been adapted for television and film. Notes Bibliography Kensington Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , around 2.9 miles (4.6 km) west of Central London . The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street , running on an east–west axis. The north-east
1232-514: The former boundaries with Hammersmith and is not in the Borough. A number of local bus services link Kensington into the surrounding districts, and key hubs are Kensington High Street and South Kensington station. These bus services were improved in frequency and spread from 2007 until 2010 when the western extension of the London congestion charge area existed (which required drivers of cars and vans during
1276-465: The king after 1095, which increased his status in feudal England. He granted the church and an estate within the manor to Abingdon Abbey in Oxfordshire , at the deathbed request of his eldest son Geoffrey. As the de Veres became Earls of Oxford , their principal manor at Kensington came to be known as Earl's Court, as they were not resident in the manor, and their manorial business was not conducted in
1320-681: The large Barkers department store building. In addition to housing the offices for the DMGT newspapers Daily Mail , Mail on Sunday and Metro , Northcliffe House also accommodates the offices of the newspapers owned by Evgeny Lebedev : The Independent , The Independent on Sunday , and the Evening Standard . The i newspaper, sold to Johnston Press in 2016, is still produced from offices in Northcliffe House. Most of these titles were for many decades produced and printed in Fleet Street in
1364-458: The most densely populated local government district in the United Kingdom. This high density has come about through the subdivision of large mid-rise Georgian and Victorian terraced houses (generally of four to six floors) into flats. The less-affluent northern extremity of Kensington has high-rise residential buildings, while this type of building in the southern part is only represented by
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1408-409: The role of Judith Anderson in the first production of his play The Devil's Disciple . Not until 1912, when they began negotiations for the London production of Pygmalion , did Shaw develop an infatuation for Campbell that resulted in a passionate, yet unconsummated, love affair of mutual fascination and a legendary exchange of letters. It was Campbell who broke off the relationship, although Shaw
1452-405: The role of Mrs. Higgins, but she declined. In later years, Shaw refused to allow the impoverished Campbell to publish or sell any of their letters except in heavily edited form, for fear of upsetting his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend and the possible harm that the letters might cause to his public image. Most of the letters were not published until 1952, two years after Shaw's death. Campbell
1496-493: The role opposite the Henry Higgins of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , she triumphed and took the play to New York and on tour in 1915 with the much younger Philip Merivale playing Higgins. She successfully played Eliza again in a 1920 London revival of the play. A couple of Campbell's later significant performances were as the title role in the 1922 West End production of Henrik Ibsen 's play Hedda Gabler and Mrs. Alving in
1540-410: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Campbell&oldid=1167938712 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1584-551: The stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell. Campbell died on 9 April 1940 in Pau, France , aged 75, of pneumonia . Her death was one of the few deaths of a personal nature that George Bernard Shaw ever noted in his personal diaries. A note book belonging to Campbell is housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections Department. Several collections of Campbell's correspondence, including her letters to Shaw (MS Thr 372.1), are part of
1628-466: The wealthiest men in post- Conquest England . He granted the tenancy of Kensington to his follower Aubrey de Vere I , who was holding the manor from him as overlord in 1086, according to the Domesday Book . The bishop's heir, Robert de Mowbray , rebelled against King William II and his vast feudal barony was forfeited to the Crown. Aubrey de Vere I thus became a tenant-in-chief , holding directly from
1672-399: The west. Parallel to the north is Kensington Road (of which Kensington High Street forms the eastern part), linking central London and Hammersmith and Hounslow to the area. To the south is Fulham Road, which connects South Kensington with Fulham to the south-west. North-south connections are not as well-developed and there is no obvious single north–south route through the area. Kensington
1716-644: Was about to direct her in Pygmalion . They remained friends in spite of the break-up and her subsequent marriage to George Cornwallis-West , but Shaw never again allowed her to originate any of the roles he had written with her in mind (e.g. Hesione Hushabye in Heartbreak House , the Serpent in Back to Methuselah , etc.). When Anthony Asquith was preparing to produce the 1938 film of Pygmalion , Shaw suggested Campbell for
1760-554: Was born Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner in Kensington , London, to John Tanner (1829–1895), son and heir of a wealthy British Army contractor to the British East India Company , and Maria Luigia Giovanna ("Louisa Joanna") née Romanini (1836–1908), daughter of Italian Count Angelo Romanini. Her father John Tanner (1829–1895), a descendant of Thomas Tanner , Bishop of St Asaph, was a consul and merchant who "managed to get through two large fortunes", in part through losses in
1804-639: Was known for her sharp wit. Her best-known remark, uttered upon hearing about a male homosexual relationship, was "My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses", although this remark has been attributed to others as well. At a dinner in the United States, she was seated next to a scientist who talked incessantly to her about ants . "They even have their own police force and army", he enthused. "No navy?" she replied. In 1884, she eloped with Patrick Campbell (1855–1900) to St Helen, Bishopsgate, while pregnant with their child, Alan "Beo" Urquhart Campbell. Patrick
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1848-440: Was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers". In the late 1890s, Campbell first became aware of George Bernard Shaw – the famous and feared dramatic critic for The Saturday Review – who lavishly praised her better performances and thoroughly criticised her lesser efforts. Shaw had already used her as inspiration for some of his plays before their first meeting in 1897 when he unsuccessfully tried to persuade Campbell to play
1892-623: Was murdered by drug dealers Sports [ edit ] Paddy Campbell (born 1974), Irish Gaelic footballer Pat Campbell (lacrosse) (born 1977), Canadian lacrosse player Patrick Campbell (rugby union) (born 2002), Irish Gaelic footballer and rugby union player Others [ edit ] Patrick T. Campbell (1871–1937), American educator Patrick J. Campbell (1918–1998), American labor leader See also [ edit ] Patrick Campbell Rodger (1920–2002), Anglican clergyman Patrick Campbell-Lyons (born 1943), composer and musician [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
1936-646: Was the son of Patrick McMicken Campbell, a banker and chief manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation , and Montgomerie Anne (née Kerr). They had first met four months prior at a card party at the house of Mrs. Gifford in Dulwich . Their second child, Stella Campbell, was born in 1886. Patrick's health was poor, and in 1887 he was ordered by his doctor to take a sea voyage. He went to Australia, and later to South Africa, staying for six-and-a-half years. He found some work but never sent enough back for Beatrice and
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