Zeffie tilbury biography books
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Zeffie Tilbury
English-American actress (–)
Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (20 November &#;– 24 July ) was an English-American actress.[1][2]
Early years
Born in Paddington, Middlesex, England, Tilbury was the only child of the variety performer Lydia Thompson and John Christian Tilbury, a riding-master and "fashionable 'man about town'" from a comfortably wealthy background, his grandfather, of the Tilbury family firm of London coachbuilders, having created the Tilbury carriage.[3][4][5] Her father died aged 26 in ; having borrowed an inexperienced horse, "All Fours", to participate in the South Essex Steeplechase at Brentwood, Essex, he was crushed by the horse when it failed to clear a fence and rolled on him.
Although he didn't appear badly injured, his skull was fractured and he had suffered severe internal injuries, which caused his death the next day.[6][7]
Career
Tilbury was known first on the