Lucy Isabella Buckstone

Lucy Isabella Buckstone (September 1857 – 17 March 1893) was an English actress born to a noted British stage family. She was perhaps best remembered for her portrayals of Annette in the Leopold Davis Lewis drama The Bells, and Lucy Ormond in Peril by Scott and Stephenson.

She began her stage career about 1875 and continued acting into the early 1890s.

Buckstone was born in Lewisham to the actor-manager John Baldwin Buckstone and his wife, Isabella Copeland Buckstone. Her 11 siblings included brothers John Copeland Buckstone and Rowland (born 1860). All three siblings would eventually follow their father into acting careers.

Buckstone made her first appearance on stage at the Croydon Theatre as Gertrude in Augustus Harris's The Little Treasure. She first appeared at the Haymarket Theatre on 26 December 1875 as Ada Ingot in David Garrick, and later played Florence Trenchard in Our American Cousin and Lucy Dorrison in Home, from the French L’Adventuriér by Emile Augier. In 1876 at the Lyceum Theatre, she played Annette in The Bells by Leopold Davis Lewis, adapted from the French, and Lady Frances Touchwood in The Belle's Stratagem. In June 1876 she appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre as Maria in a testimonial performance of School for Scandal held in behalf of her father. That same year at the Prince of Wales's Theatre she was Lucy Ormond in Peril by Scott and Stephenson, an adaptation of Sardou's Nos intimes. The following year Buckstone appeared as Minnie in Engaged, a comedy by W. S. Gilbert at the Haymarket.

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