page_title: Alice Marriott (actress)
section_title: Descendants
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Marriott (actress) / Background / Descendants
caption_attribution_description: An image of Marriott Edgar (1880-1951), the actor and pantomime dame who wrote The Lion and Albert monologue for Stanley Holloway.
context_page_description: Alice Marriott, known professionally as Mrs Marriott or Miss Marriott, was a nineteenth-century British stage actress. She was known for regularly playing the part of Hamlet in doublet and hose, to good reviews. She married Robert "Bob" Edgar, lessee of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and took responsibility for management and production at this and other theatres for some years, besides touring America and Britain. Towards the end of her career she played alongside Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum Theatre, London, but it was Alice Marriott who "made the female Hamlet respectable in England." She was the grandmother of Edgar Wallace and Marriott Edgar.
context_section_description: Her three children were all born in Lancashire: Richard Horatio Marriott (1847–1894), Adeline Marriott (b.1853), and Grace Marriott (b.1858). All three were products of liaisons before her marriage, and all three took Alice's husband's surname later. Richard was a sometime comic pantomime actor, under the name of Richard Marriott Edgar.
  One of her grandsons was the pantomime dame George Marriott Edgar (1880–1951), known professionally as Marriott Edgar. He was born in Scotland, the son of Richard Horatio Marriott Edgar, and he was the dramatic author who wrote the comic monologue, The Lion and Albert for Stanley Holloway. Another grandson was the writer Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), the illegitimate son of Richard Horatio Marriott Edgar.
caption: Marriot Edgar, as a pantomime dame
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