Later Life and Career
In 1879, the Bancrofts moved to the Haymarket Theatre, where they produced or starred in a revival of Money, and in Sardou's Odette (for which they engaged Madame Helena Modjeska) and Fedora, and Pinero’s Lords and Commons, with revivals of previous successes.
Having made a considerable fortune, they retired in 1885. Bancroft was knighted in 1897. Between 1917, and his death in 1926, Bancroft maintained rooms at the fashionable Albany, in Piccadilly. Both he and his wife are buried in Brompton Cemetery.
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