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Pablo Fanque. Pablo Fanque (born William Darby; 30 March 1810 – 4 May 1871) was a British equestrian performer and circus proprietor, becoming the first recorded Black circus owner in Britain. His circus was popular in Victorian Britain for 30 years, [1][2][3] a period that is regarded as the golden age of the circus.
Pages in category "19th-century circus performers" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A vaudeville performer is sometimes known as a "vaudevillian". Comic duo consisting of William (Bud) Abbott (October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974) and Lou Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959). Abbott began working in vaudeville in 1918, producing a "tab show" on the Gus Sun circuit with his wife.
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term circus also describes the ...
Samuel Lockhart (1851–1933) was a famous Victorian elephant trainer and the second child of the famous Lockhart circus family. His work with elephants took him all over the UK, including Royal command performances in front of Queen Victoria, Europe (where he ran his own circus France) and in the USA, where he worked for the famous Ringling Brothers Circus from 1896 to 1901.
3 ft 4 in (102 cm) [citation needed] Spouse. Lavinia Warren. . (m. 1863) . Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name " General Tom Thumb ", was an American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum.
William Batty (1801–1868) was an equestrian performer, circus proprietor, and longtime operator of Astley's Amphitheatre in London. Batty was one of the most successful circus proprietors in Victorian England and helped launch the careers of a number of leading Victorian circus personalities, such as Pablo Fanque, the versatile performer and ...
Victoria Sanger Freeman (28 September 1895 – August 1991) was an English circus entertainer. [1] Victoria Florence Sanger Freeman was a legendary figure in the circus world, where she gained and earned the title "the Queen of the Elephants". [2] She was born on 28 September 1895 into a renowned family which was commanded to appear and perform ...