Today is the birthday of Harry Rickards (Henry Benjamin Leete, 1843-1911). A native Londoner, Rickards apprenticed to be an engineer like his father, but took to comic singing in the halls and pantomime, much against his parents’ wwishes. By 1871 he had established enough of a reputation that he risked a voyage to Australia, and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:19AM on December 4, 2014