Avon Dawson Saxon was a Canadian operatic and concert singer who created the role of Friar Tuck in the romantic opera Ivanhoe (1891) by Arthur Sullivan and Julian Sturgis and Francal in Mirette by André Messager at the Savoy Theatre in 1894.
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
Friar Tuck is one of the Merry Men, the band of heroic outlaws in the folklore of Robin Hood.
Figure of Friar Tuck, Scott Monument, Edinburgh, by George Clark Stanton
Friar Tuck meets the disguised Richard the Lionheart in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.