Lottie Venne
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Lottie Venne was an English comic actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, who enjoyed a theatre career spanning five decades. Venne began her stage career in musical burlesque before m
Lottie Venne in a Rotary postcard, c. 1910
Venne in 1889
Walter H. Fisher
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Walter Henry Fisher was an English singer and actor of the Victorian era best remembered as the creator of the role of the Defendant in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1875 opera Trial by Jury. Beginning in th
Lottie Venne
…by two years touring in the provinces. For part of this time, she joined Captain Disney Roebuck's touring company, where she met her future husband, Walter H. Fisher. In London, in 1870, Venne played Susan Piper in A Bull in a China Shop, a comedy by Charles Mathews at the Haymarket Theatre. At the same theatre, she…
Walter H. Fisher in W. S. Gilbert's The Happy Land in 1873