The editors of A Biographical Dictionary of Actors … in London, 1660–1800 have overlooked an episode in the life of the popular late-Restoration actress Elizabeth Watson Boman which may help explain her rapid rise to the position of a principal actress in the United Company. Thomas Southerne tells us that after the death of her father in 1691, Elizabeth Watson was adopted and trained as a player by the great actor Thomas Betterton. However, from new evidence it appears that the childless Thomas and Mary Betterton, who often acted as surrogate parents to young actresses and the orphaned children of friends, had assumed the roles of Elizabeth's guardians before this date, perhaps as early as 1686.