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Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery

1619 – 1689

English musician and actor

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Lived 1619 – 1689 (aged 69–70). Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery was an actor.

Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery (née Lady Alice Egerton; 1619-1689) was an English musician and performer who acted in two notable masques: Aurelian Townshend's Tempe Restored, and John Milton's Maske Performed at Ludlow Castle (1634).

Lady Alice was the youngest of eleven daughters born to John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater and Lady Frances Stanley. She starred in the singing role of The Lady in Milton's Mask e when it was performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634, in honor of her father's appointment as Lord President of Wales. Her younger brothers, John and Thomas, appeared as The Lady's Brothers. Henry Lawes, who wrote the music for the Maske, was Alice Egerton's music teacher. She was participating in a family tradition: her grandmother, Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby, a well-known patron of the arts, had herself appeared in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Queens in 1609 and was the honoree of Milton's masque Arcades.

Lady Alice married Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery in 1652, when she was aged about 33 and he was approximately twenty years older; they had no children. The earl succeeded Alice's father as Lord President of Wales following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, but he was later removed from the post.

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1619
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Died
1689
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Lady Alice Egerton

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English musician and actor

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Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery was born in 1619.

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Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery died in 1689.

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Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery was an actor.

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· Wikipedia: Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery

· Wikidata: Q45281501

· DBpedia: Alice Vaughan, Countess of Carbery

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