Nina Gladys Sevening (1885–1958) was an English stage actress and singer who played minor comedy roles in a long string of Edwardian musical comedies in London and on tour.
Background
Sevening was born in Westminster, London. Her parents were H. W. Sevening, a German-born commercial clerk, and his English wife Gertrude. She was educated in London and Paris.[2][3]
Career
Sevening first appeared on stage in December 1894 in The House That Jack Built at the Opera Comique.[citation needed] She later appeared in:
In 1903, Sevening toured in Three Little Maids. In 1905 she was a replacement player in the role of Gwenny Holden in Lady Madcap.[18]
She married Victor Charles Hamilton Longstaffe (born 1885) and changed her last name after him.[1] She retired from the stage in 1917.
There is a memorial to their only son, David John Longstaffe, in Aldeburgh Parish Church in Suffolk, England. David died on 16 September 1945 in Athens, where he was a Captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.[19]