Sir Henry Irving was an English actor-manager in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He established himself at the West End theatre the Lyceum. His long campaign to have theatre recognised as an art of
Irving c. 1878
Irving's birthplace, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset
As the haunted murderer Mathias in The Bells, 1872
Lionel "Lal" Brough was a British actor and comedian. After beginning a journalistic career and performing as an amateur, he became a professional actor, performing mostly in Liverpool during the mid-
Lionel Brough
Edward Saker and Brough in Box and Cox
1884 caricatures of Brough
Brough caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1905