Kate Bishop

Kate Alice Bishop (1 October 1849 and his wife Charlotte, née Woulds. She began acting as a child in her mother's native Bristol in 1863. Her brother Alfred also successfully entered the theatrical profession. Their grandfather, James Woulds, shared with William Macready at one time the management of the historic theatre at Bath.

Early career As a teen Bishop was a member of Mr J. H. Chute's Bristol company, which included Madge Kendal, Henrietta Hodson and Ellen Terry. By 1864 she was in Charles Alexander Calvert's company at Prince's Theatre, Manchester, where she played the title character in Black-Eyed Susan and Cordelia in King Lear, among other roles. She then appeared in Manchester under the management of John Hollingshead as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Clara in Money.

In the West End she appeared in A Loving Cup at the Royalty Theatre in 1869, and in 1871 at the Royal Court Theatre in a succession of three new comic plays by W. S. Gilbert, playing Edith Temple in Randall's Thumb, Pipette in Creatures of Impulse, and Jessie Blake in On Guard. Of her performance in the last, The Times commented, "The notion of the irresistible flirt is completely realized by Miss Kate Bishop." Bishop played in About Town by Bertie Vyse in 1873 and Ruy Blas Righted and Romulus and Remus, both by Robert Reece, in 1874. She then appeared as Ida in Hermann Vezin's production of David Garrick Byron supplied a successor, The Girls, in which Bishop had another leading role in 1879. The next year, at the Vaudeville, she played Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal for another long run, followed by Lady Alice in Dion Boucicault's Old Heads and Young Hearts in 1881. Later that year, she was Dora in T. W. Robertson's Home, an adaptation of Émile Augier's comedy L'Aventurière. In the late 1880s she married and left the stage for more than a decade at the end of the nineteenth century. Later in the year she appeared in Struwwelpeter (Shock-Headed Peter), at the Garrick Theatre, together with George Grossmith Jr. She played Mrs Percival de Hooley in Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Black in 1908. In 1909 she appeared on Broadway in Penelope, by Somerset Maugham, at the Lyceum Theatre. Bishop appeared in Fanny's First Play. Her last stage appearance was in 1915, creating the role of Lady Matilda Rye in H. A. Vachell's The Case of Lady Camber at the Savoy Theatre.

Personal life In the late 1880s, Bishop married Lewis J. Löhr, treasurer of the Melbourne Opera House

Bishop died in London,