Margaret Cuyler

Margaret Cuyler, Mrs. Rice (1758 – 14 March 1814) was a British actress and courtesan.

Life According to Fanny Hill and other unreliable sources, Margaret's father would become a lieutenant colonel in the Army and the playmate of a princess. She did bear a child for Captain Cuyler whose name she took before he went off to soldier in America with the 46th foot. She became the partner of a Major. Her manager George Colman the Younger described her as an "Irish Venus without the Graces" and he obtained for her the role of Miss Mortimer in Harriet Lee's The Chapter of Accidents. Until 1809 she found work at the major theatres during the summer. In 1783, her "gracefully elegant form was exhibited to the utmost advantage" when she appeared in a masquerade at which the Prince of Wales was present. In the 1789-90 season, she was paid by Drury Lane but she appeared only once.

Cuyler had to resort to charity from the Drury Lane Actors' Fund in 1808 and when she died in Lambeth in 1814 she had so little money that it is presumed that actors who remembered her paid for her funeral.