A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bellamy, Georgiana
BELLAMY, GEORGIANA,
An actress of some celebrity, was born in 1733. Her mother was a Miss Searle, the mistress of Lord Trelawney, who afterwards married Captain Bellamy. He separated from her on discovering her infidelity. Miss Bellamy was brought out by Mr. Garrick, at the Covent-Garden theatre, at the age of fourteen, and met with much success for some years. She died at Edinburgh, in deep distress, in 1788. Her life was a series of errors and misfortunes. She wrote her own memoirs in six volumes.