Draft:Mary Fauche

Mary Fauche (March 19, 1801 – September 27, 1875) was a British composer.

Mary Dolling Tomkison was the daughter of a pianoforte manufacturer and a childhood friend of novelist Fanny Trollope.

Her opera The Shepherd King, or the Conquest of Sidon was performed at the London Lyceum in 1823. It was revived in 2023 in a private performance conducted by Stephen Higgins.

Poet William Plomer recalls her "singing like a linnet."

Mary Fauche died on 27 September 1875 in Brighton.