Arthur William Cairns, 2nd Earl Cairns, was a British aristocrat, succeeding to the title on the death of his father, the first Earl Cairns, on 2 April 1885.
Earl Cairns as caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, January 1886.
Iolanthe
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Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen
Arthur Cairns, 2nd Earl Cairns
…promise of marriage by Emily Mary Finney (an actress with the stage name of May Fortescue). He had seen her on stage in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Iolanthe and the two struck up a relationship. He proposed marriage, and she accepted, leaving the Savoy Theatre at the end of August 1883. Although his family…
Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887
Programme from 1883 during the original run
"She kisses just like other people!"
Jessie Bond as Iolanthe