Manager Collection (page 5)

RICHS VILLA / HOGARTH
JOHN RICH: Theatrical Manager & Actor credited with the invention of the pantomime with his wife Mrs Stevens & their 4 children at his villa at Cowley, Middlesex. Date: ?1682 - 1761

Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Draper Beerbohm Tree (1852 - 1917), English actor-manager, in the role of Macbeth Date: 1911

SQUIRE BANCROFT 1891
SIR SQUIRE BANCROFT English actor-manager Date: 1841 - 1926

JOHN LAWRENCE TOOLE
John Lawrence Toole, English actor-manager Date: 1830 - 1906

Postcard, St Jamess Theatre, King Street, London. Lessee and Manager: George Alexander. circa 1900s

Bransby Williams and Company at the Grand Theatre, Hull, in The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, and Oliver Twist. circa 1922

Frank Benson, English actor-manager
Sir Francis Robert (Frank) Benson (1858-1939), English actor-manager specialising in Shakespeare. Date: late 19th century

Wilson Barrett, English actor, manager and playwright
Wilson Barrett (1846-1904), English actor, manager and playwright. Date: 1901

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and theatre manager
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), English actor and theatre manager. Date: 1901

The Conference Department team, October 1997. From left?
The Conference Department team, October 1997. From left: Maria Aprilante, Deputy Conference Manager; Sue Leverton, Conference Officer, Gail Broadbent, Senior Conference Officer and Julia Goss

Lewis Waller - English actor-manager in role of Robin Hood
Lewis Waller (William Waller Lewis) (1860-1915) - English actor-manager in the role of Robin Hood. Date: circa 1909

Harold Pyott - Tiny Tim the English Midget
Harold Pyott (1887-1937) - Tiny Tim the English Midget The Living Doll - aged 43 years old, height 23", weight 24lbs. Twelve inches smaller than the renowned Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton) of P

Estate Managers house, Guyana, South America
Estate Managers house (possibly on a sugar plantation), Guyana (then British Guiana), South America. Date: circa 1905

Strip tease card game - Joker card, featuring the four heads of the Theatre Manager, the exotic peformer, the prosecution barrister and the prude, Miss Prim

Coxs by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
When one feels rather in favour of floating a War Loan of ones own. A British officer visits his bank to find out hes rather overdrawn. Date: 1917

Tatler cover - Gerald du Maurier
Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (1873-1934), English actor and manager. Father to writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier, son of the Punch artist George du Maurier

Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales
Workmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph

Telegram Boys 1937
Four young telegraph boys, smartly dressed in their uniforms, queue up at the counter to be given their telegrams by the manager

Cartoon, Mr James Willing and the Ghost
Cartoon, Mr James Willing, Jun, is busy writing another stirring drama. Our artist has caught him at that moment when the " ghost" comes in

Cartoon, Henry Irving and Harry Hart
Cartoon, Henry Irving, theatre manager, and Harry Hart, nicknamed the " Happy Hebrew", music hall manager, commenting on how the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington is

Oil Palm Estate, Calabar, Nigeria, West Africa
Oil Palm Estate, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, West Africa. Oil palm and rubber processing, Pamol Ltd. Showing a roundabout with signpost. Date: circa 1946

Cartoon, Chatterton at the Princesss Theatre
Cartoon, Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager --We wish Chatterton every success at the Princess s. The irony is that the Chatterton on the sandwich board refers to a performance

Cartoon, George Conquest outside the Eagle Tavern
Cartoon, George Conquest -- I wonder if I shall ever be back there! George Augustus Oliver Conquest (1837-1901), playwright, theatre manager, acrobat and pantomimist

Group photo, St Ives football team (Huntingdonshire)
Group photo, St Ives football team. Back row, left to right: H Mence, E Kiddle, G B Ulph, Houghton, Gifford (goalkeeper), F Russell; middle row: Freeman, H Copley, F M Warren

The Epicure who detected a Minnow by H. M. Bateman
The Epicure Who Detected a Minnow in the Whitebait by H. M. Batemen. An arrogant diner, irate to discover a minnow amongst his plate of whitebait, demands the ma e d rectifies the situation

Albert von Maybach (1822-1904). German lawyer, politician an
Arnold Heinrich Albert von Maybach (1822- 1904). German lawyer, politician and railway manager. Engraving. Historia Universal, 1885. Colored

Music cover, If you re Wanting to Buy a Car, words and music by Will Hyde, as sung by Stafford Coombe, the Works Manager. Showing a man driving a Vauxhall Scoota Car. 1935

Cartoon, Edwin Villiers, theatre manager and actor
Cartoon, Robert Edwin Villiers (1830-1904), manager of the Canterbury and London Pavilion music hall, and formerly an actor. 1879

Caricature, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker
Caricature, Henry Irving congratulates his theatre manager, Bram Stoker for recently rescuing a man from drowning in the River Thames near his Chelsea home. 1882

Mrs Lorna Barrison - English equestrienne - Toulouse-Lautrec
Dans les coulisses des Folies-Berg貥s by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) - Mrs Lorna Barrison, an English equestrienne of some fame, with her husband, who was also her manager

Barrow FC football team 1936. Back row: Lowes (Secretary Manager), Hopkinson, Kitson, Postlethwaite (Chairman), Pickard, Hunter, Allcock (Captain)

Dundee FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Quskley (Trainer), Morgan, Richards, Marsh, Guthrie (Captain), Wemyss, Smith, M Candless (Secretary Manager)

Tranmere Rovers FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Knowles (Secretary), Spencer, Platt, McLaren (Captain), Gray, Amery, Bradshaw, Carr (Manager), Hurrell (Director)

American boxers Joe Louis and Billy Conn, New York, USA
American boxers Joe Louis and Billy Conn weighing in before a fight, New York, USA. They fought each other twice, in 1941 and 1946; Louis won both matches. Date: 1940s

Seymour Portman, horse-race manager. Date: 1884

Les Rouges et Noirs army troupe at the Savoy, 1919
Les Rouges et Noirs, the concert troupe of the First Army pictured with the manager, Captain Makeham at the Savoy Theatre in 1919

Advertisement, Furniture and Fine Art Depositories
Advertisement for a sale of furniture and other items at the Furniture and Fine Art Depositories Ltd, 48-50 Park Street, Upper Street, Islington, London

The Australian Cricket Team 1888. Back row JJ Ferris, AH Jarvis, J Worrall, CW Beal (manager), J McC Blackham, HF Boyle, J Edwards

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Beerbohm Tree as Fagin
Sir HERBERT DRAPER BEERBOHM TREE English actor-manager in the role of Fagin in Oliver Twist

Portrait, The Late Mr E F Edgar (A Recollection). He was the husband of Alice Marriott, actress, and shared theatre management duties with her. 1884

Forbes Robertson and Patrick Campbell
Forbes Robertson (1853 - 1937) and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865 b 1940). Johnston Forbes Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager

Evelyn Millard (1869 1941) - English Shakespearean actress, actor-manager and " stage beauty" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905), English stage actor and actor-manager of the Victorian era. Shown here in the role of Cardinal Wolsey. Date: 1899

George Allison on River Patrol
George Allison, manager of Arsenal Football Club, carrying out a river patrol for the Home Guard. Note that he wears the armband of the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers)

Charles Wyndham, actor-manager (1837-1919) pictured in The Sketch at the time of the opening of his theatre, Wyndhams Theatre in 1899

The Babes in the Wood, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
The Babes in the Wood, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Christmas 1907. Both as Drury Lane manager and part author (with Frank Dix) of the pantomime

Cartoon, mopping up at the Criterion Theatre, London
Cartoon -- They are getting the water out of the Criterion with all speed. Henry James Byron (1835-1884) is shown mopping up at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly, London, after some flooding

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