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From: "Leo van de Pas" <>
Subject: Samuel Foote - two English ones
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:16:21 +1000


In Ruvigny's Blood Royal you can find Samuel Foote who lived from 1720 to 1777. He was an actor and dramatist and if you google him you will find a lot of fun sayings by him. As he is in Ruvigny's work it is easy to establish how he has royal ancestors. He is a descendant of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, John of Gaunt and so on. Ruvigny gives him a brother Edward a sister Eleanor and a brother John who changed his surname (he because inherited an estate). Sadly, none are marked off with spouses of children and Google tells that Samuel Foote possibly was married early in life but no details are known.

A little bit later in time, not much, there was another Samuel Foote who run a theatre, married a Miss Hannington and in 1798 fathered a daughter called Maria Foote. In 1810 when Maria was only twelve she played Juliet in her father's theatre. In 1814 she acted in "The Child of Nature" at Covent Garden. In 1815 she became the mistress of the future Earl FitzHardinge and in 1831 married Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington.

Here we have two people named Samuel Foote, both involved with the world of acting, and I wonder whether they could be related. Would anyone know?

With many thanks.
Leo van de Pas




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