DAVENPORT, EDWARD LOOMIS American actor, born in Boston, made his first appearance on the stage in Providence in support of Junius Brutus Booth. After wards he went to England, where he supported Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt (Ritchie) (1819-7o), Macready and others. In he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of Dickens's novels. As Bill Sikes he was especially successful and his Sir Giles Overreach and Brutus were also greatly admired. He died at Canton, Pa., on Sept. 1, 1877. In 1849 he had married Fanny Vining (Mrs. Charles Gill) (d. 1891), an English actress also in Mrs. Mowatt's company.
Their daughter FANNY (LILY GIPSY) DAVENPORT appeared in America at the age of 12 as the king of Spain in Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady. Later (1869) she was a member of Daly's company; and afterwards, with a company of her own, acted with especial success in Sardou's Fedora (1883), Cleopatra (189o) and similar plays. Her last appearance was on March 25, 1898, shortly before her death.