Eliza Ann Vincent

Eliza Ann Vincent or Miss Vincent (1 April 1815 – 10 November 1856) was a British actress and theatre manager

Life Vincent was born in Southwark in 1815. Her parents were Ann and Philip Vincent and her father sold the news. Vincent became a child star after her first appearance in 1821 in George Dibdin Pitt's play The Ruffian Boy at the Surrey Theatre. Vincent was in the title role, she still backed Dibdin Pitt's work. She and the theatre achieved great success with this play which lasted a decade. By 1849, it had been performed 343 times.

In 1841, David Osbaldiston who was Vincent's lover took over as lessee of The Old Vic. In 1848 the theatre put on the first dramatization of Jane Eyre by Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë) with Miss Vincent in the title role on February 9-12th. Osbaldiston was succeeded on his death in 1850 by Vincent who was still the theatre's leading lady.

Vincent died in 1856 in Lambeth.

Private life She never married and retained her name throughout her career.