Background
Graddon was born in Taunton in 1804.
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Margaretta Graddon
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She was trained by Tom Cooke and then sang in the provinces until she appeared at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822, later in Dublin, and then at Drury Lane Theatre in 1824 in The Marriage of Figaro. The same year she appeared in Henry Bishop"s version of Der Freischütz. There was a pianoforte company called Graddon and Gibbs".
She toured in the United States in 1834 and 1835.
In 1844 she was again appearing at Vauxhall and being paid five pounds a week. She was last mentioned in a musical directory in 1855.
