Theatre manager impresario. Born Melbourne, Australia. Moved when young to England and helped his mother manage a music hall in Liverpool. Very successful and merged with his competitor to form the Stoll Moss Group, managing an Empire or Coliseum in most large towns. He arranged for his mother to make the first ticket sale in each new box office. Founder of the Royal Variety Performance in 1912. Died at home 33 Putney Hill.
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Sir Oswald Stoll
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Hackney Empire pavement plaque - Sir Oswald Stoll
Sir Oswald Stoll - theatre impresario & philanthropist
London Coliseum
London Coliseum Home of English National Opera since 1968, The London Colise...
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Edmund Kean
Born Gray's Inn. Very successful Shakespearian actor. Led a hectic and debauched life. In 1822 bought Woodend House and land on the isle of Bute in Scotland. Died at home in Richmond, Surrey.
Globe Theatre, Southwark
Created when the lease ran out for The Theatre in 1597 so the building was dismantled and rebuilt across the Thames as The Globe. Closed by the Puritans and pulled down in 1644. The reconstruction...
Emma Cons
Social reformer and theatre manager. Born London. Knew and was influenced by Octavia Hill, John Ruskin and Henrietta Barnett. Her involvement in the temperance movement led to her taking on the lea...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Theatre
Kevin Spacey
Actor and director. Born New Jersey. Artistic director of the Old Vic theatre since 2003.
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Peter of Savoy
Ninth Earl of Savoy and first earl of Richmond. Uncle to Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's wife. Henry gave him the land on which, in 1263, he built the Savoy Palace.
Shridath Ramphal
Born in New Amsterdam, British Guyana as Shridath Surendranath Ramphal and known as 'Sonny'. He served as Assistant Attorney General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, Foreign Ministe...
George Eliot - SW18
SW18, Wimbledon Park Road, 31, Holly Lodge
She lived at this address with George Henry Lewes from early 1859 until late 1860, and supposedly completed ‘Adam Bede’ and wrote ‘The Mi...
Graham Thomson Lyall, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 27 September 1918, age 26, while serving in the 102nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. "Through two days of operations he captured 185 prisoners and 27 gun...
Sunlight Wharf
EC4, Trig Lane
The wonderful A London Inheritance have a 1982 photo of the area before the current buildings were erectred. It shows the crane and LEP'...
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