Lilian Eldee

Born Lilian Bertha Stuart-Wortley, her married name Lillian Bertha Duncombe & her stage name Lilian Eldée (b. 1870 - d. 1904) was a singer, actress, translator and lyricist. Daughter of Archibald J. Stuart Wortley (painter/artist) & Nelly Bromley (actor, singer. later took her married name Mrs. Archibald Stuart Wortley). Lilian was married to Colonel C. W. E. Duncombe. Among her credits are the English lyrics for André Messager’s popular comic opera ‘Veronique’ (1904), and the vocal monologue with piano, ‘The Eternal Feminine’, to music by Liza Lehmann.