the pure shores of India should not be invaded by an actress" (indeed, the Calcutta Theatre had an all-male cast), she was obliged to leave India. She was a passenger on the packet ship Nancy, (whose captain, John Haldane, was also reported to be her lover) when it wrecked and sank off the Isles of Scilly on 4 March 1784. Her body, originally unidentified, was buried on Rosevear, before being reburied at Old Town Church on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. The newspaper accounts of her death and how the body had been found "floating in her shift" with an infant at her bosom made her a tragic figure for the English press. In September 2008, British divers claimed to have found the wreck of the Nancy, further out from the Isles of Scilly than was previously thought. References 1760 births 1784 deaths 18th-century English actresses English stage actresses Accidental deaths in England Deaths by drowning in the United Kingdom 18th-century British women opera singers