Avon Saxon
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Avon Dawson Saxon was a Canadian operatic and concert singer who created the role of Friar Tuck in the romantic opera Ivanhoe by Arthur Sullivan and Julian Sturgis and Francal in Mirette by André Mess
Avon Saxon
Saxon as Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe, drawn by Linley Sambourne for Punch (1891)
Saxon as Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe (1891), taken from the souvenir programme for the 100th performance
Richard Barker Cobb Temple was an English opera singer, actor and stage director, best known for his performances in the bass-baritone roles in the famous series of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.
Richard Temple as Strephon in Iolanthe (1882)
Temple with Mrs Howard Paul in The Sorcerer
Temple as Dick Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore
Temple as The Mikado of Japan