caption death_date death_place birth_place other_names name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
vesta victoria ca. 1908 7 april 1951 hampstead , london leeds , yorkshire baby victoria little victoria vesta victoria 26 november 1873 william -lrb- divorced -rrb- one daughter . frederick wallace mcavoy ; herbert 1897 -lrb- divorced -rrb- one daughter . henry terry 1912 & ndash ; 1926 vesta victoria 001.jpg vesta victoria
 victoria lawrence music hall singer & comedian , film actress
vesta victoria

vesta victoria -lrb- 26 november 1873 -- 7 april 1951 -rrb- was an english music hall singer and comedian .
although born in leeds , yorkshire , vesta adopted a cockney persona on stage .
she began her career as a small child appearing with her father .
the painter walter sickert made a portrait of her performance `` vesta victoria at the old bedford '' , in about 1890 .
her solo career took off in 1892 when `` daddy would n't buy me a bow wow '' became a hit .
vesta 's comic laments delivered in deadpan style were as popular in the united states as in her homeland and she toured and recorded in america in 1907 , where she was one of the most highly paid vaudeville stars .
between appearances , she lived on a houseboat , moored near hampton court .
vesta retired after world war i but re-recorded many of her hits in 1931 in a series of old-time medleys , and appeared in the royal variety show of 1932 .
she also appeared in a number of films in the 1930s .
she died at hampstead on 7 april 1951 , and was cremated at golders green crematorium , where a lilac tree -lrb- no longer in existence -rrb- was planted in her memory .
a one-woman show based on her life and work by the actress helen fraser toured during the 1990s .
