Managers Gallery

Cartoon, Squire Bancroft and General William Booth

Cartoon, Squire Bancroft, actor-manager, and General William Booth of the Salvation Army. To think the little house should come to this! I wonder if he will make as much money here as I did! Bancroft and his wife had previously been managers of the Prince of Wales's Theatre (off Tottenham Court Road), before moving on to the Haymarket Theatre in 1879, but he retired from management in 1885. The Prince of Wales's Theatre building was used as a Salvation Army hostel from 1886.
1885

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East Africa - Agency Building

East Africa - Agency Building - white single-storey building workers sitting outside. Part of Box 249 Boswell Collection - East Coast of Africa. The predecessor of this company was established as the Livingstonia Central Africa Company in 1877 with its head office in Glasgow by a group of local businessmen and its first managers were two brothers, John Moir and Frederick Moir. It was renamed The African Lakes Company Limited in 1878 and The African Lakes Corporation Limited in 1894. Date: circa 1900

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

Cartoon, Thomas Thorne and David James

Cartoon, Thomas Thorne (right, 1841-1918), English actor and theatre manager, and David James (left, 1839-1893), English comic actor. They were founding managers of the Vaudeville Theatre, Strand, London. The spider in the upper corner is possibly a reference to the architect of the theatre building, C J Phipps.
1880

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