Julia Glover

Julia Betterton Glover (8 January 1779

Biography Glover was born Julia Butterton in 1779 or 1781 in Newry, Ireland. When Cooke was cast as Glumdalca, the Queen of the Giants, in Fieldings burlesque play Tom Thumb, Cooke chose Julia to play the title role. In 1822, she appeared as Nurse in Romeo and Juliet at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; her daughter Phyllis played Juliet. On 8 February 1837, her father, with whom she had had an unhappy relationship, died.

One of her sons was Edmund Glover and another was William Howard Glover. In 1850, Glover announced her retirement from the stage. After two weeks confined to her bed, she appeared at Drury Lane for her farewell benefit performance on 12 July 1850 as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals. She was noticeably ill and weak during her performance and was unable to stand to receive her applause at the end of the play. Instead, the curtain rose to reveal Glover seated, surrounded by the rest of the cast. She died days later on 16 July 1850.

Selected roles Emily Fitzallan in False Impressions by Richard Cumberland (1797) Lady Jane in He's Much to Blame by Thomas Holcroft (1798) Eleanor de Ferrars in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland (1798) Maria in Five Thousand a Year by Thomas Dibdin (1799) Caroline in The Votary of Wealth by Joseph George Holman (1799) Lady Susan Courtley in To Marry or Not to Marry by Elizabeth Inchbald (1805) Lady Le Brun in A Hint to Husbands by Richard Cumberland (1806) Mrs Glenroy in Town and Country by Thomas Morton (1807) The Unknown Lady in Ourselves by Marianne Chambers (1811) Alhadra in Remorse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1813) Laetitia Freemantle in First Impressions by Horatio Smith (1813) Tullia in Brutus by John Howard Payne (1818) Mrs Weilberg in The Three Strangers by Harriet Lee (1825) Jeanette in The French Libertine by John Howard Payne (1826) Dame Ryland in A School for Grown Children by Thomas Morton (1827) Lady Hampton in The School for Coquettes by Catherine Gore (1831) Madame Burkenstaff in The Minister and the Mercer by Alfred Bunn (1834) Widow Green in The Love Chase by James Sheridan Knowles (1837) Esther in The Maid of Mariendorpt by James Sheridan Knowles (1838) Mrs. Grigson in Quid Pro Quo by Catherine Gore (1844) Miss Brown in Look Before You Leap by George William Lovell (1846) Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1850)