Doris Stocker
Doris Mary Stocker was a British actress and singer, especially in Edwardian musical comedy.
She was born in Bombay in India in 1886, the second of three children of George Stocker, an engineer, and Mary Dunn née Johnston. While their father remained in India for work Mary Stocker returned to England with her children where they lived in London from at least 1891 to 1911. Her older sister Blanche Stocker was also a stage actress and singer.
Doris Stocker began her career as a chorus girl under George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre in London and was Grace Hufnagle in Captain Kidd at Wyndham's Theatre ; Angy Loftus in The Cingalee at Daly's Theatre in London, Pepzi in A Waltz Dream at Daly's Theatre ; Lady Diana Camden in Theodore & Co at the Gaiety Theatre ; Gipsy Dancer in Gipsy Love at Daly's Theatre and was the Honorable Baby Vereker in To-Night's the Night at the Shubert Theatre in New York and after at the Gaiety Theatre in London.
In 1915 at the height of World War I she accompanied Sylvia Brett and Charles Vyner Brooke, whom she hardly knew, on a Japanese steamer to Sarawak to visit Charles Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.
At Marylebone in London on 4 October 1917 she married Sir Henry O'Neal De Hane Segrave, then serving in World War I as a Captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps. After her marriage she retired from the stage.
Lady Doris Mary Segrave née Stocker died in Kensington in London in 1968, leaving £76,135 in her will.
