Elizabeth Hamblin

Elizabeth Hamblin (born Elizabeth Walker Blanchard; 1799–1849) was a British-born American stage actress and one of the first female theatre managers in the United States. Personal life Hamblin was the daughter of actor William Blanchard and the half-sister of playwright E. L. Blanchard. She married the actor Thomas S. Hamblin, whom she divorced in 1834. She later married her colleague, James Charles. She was the mother to actor Thomas (William Henry) Hamblin Jr. and Elizabeth “Betsey” Hamblin.