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LUCIA ELIZABETH, an English actress; the granddaughter of don, January, 1797. Accomplished in music, French, and Italian, she married member of an originally Florentine family that gave to France a series of ily that gave to France a series of distinguished cooks, actors, and balletdancers. Three years later she separated from her husband and went on the stage in Paris (1815), attaining fair success. In 1820 she appeared at Drury Lane, London, soon became famous in "The Haunted Tower," was even more popular as Phoebe in "Paul Pry," and in light comedy and burlesque was uniformly successful. She was lessee of the Olympic when in 1838 she married Charles James Mathews, and she afterward undertook the management of Covent Garden and the Lyceum. She reand the Lyceum. She retired in 1854, and died in Gore Lodge, Fulham, England, Aug. 8, 1856.