The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs

by Thomas Frost

INDEX

Abbott’s theatrical booth, [358]
Adams, the dancer, [154]
African dwarfs, [80]
Albinoes, [295], [310], [313]
Albion dancing-booth, [263]
Algar’s dancing-booth, [263], [328], [333], [355]
Allen, the dwarf, [205]
Ambroise, the showman, [189]
Amburgh, Van, the lion-tamer, [260]
American juggler, [294]
Annesley, Mrs., the dancer, [164]
Appleby, the showman, [63]
Arthur, the comedian, [144]
Astley, the equestrian, [211]
Aston, the comedian, [109], [121]
Atkins’s menagerie, [258], [277], [302], [304]
Baker, Mrs., the theatrical manageress, [196]
Ball, the showman, [271], [303], [309]
Ballard’s animal comedians, [169]
"menagerie, [232], [241], [287], [303], [305]
Banks and his performing horse, [23]
Barnes, the showman, [63]
""pantaloon, [246]
Barnett, Mrs., the actress, [349]
Basil, the showman, [191]
Baudouin, the comic dancer, [131]

Bearded women, [33], [47]
Belzoni’s feats of strength, [216]
Berar’s optikali illusio, [311]
Biffin, Miss, the armless portrait painter, [210], [231]
Billington, the comedian, [349]
Birds, performing, [178], [182], [188]
Bisset, the animal trainer, [177]
Blacker, the dwarf, [167]
Blight, Helen, the lion-performer, [337]
Boheme, the tragedian, [96]
Booth, the theatrical manager, [94]
Bradshaw, Miss, the actress, [144]
Breslaw, the conjuror, [187], [192]
Bridge’s theatrical booth, [152], [163]
Broomsgrove, the showman, [313]
Brown, the showman, [272], [300]
Brown’s theatre of arts, [315]
Brunn, the juggler, [189]
Bullock, the comedian, [78], [95], [105], [107], [114], [119], [132]
Burchall, the showman, [314]
Burnett, the trapezist, [359]
Cadman, the flying man, [145]
Campbell, Mrs., the actress, [344], [349], [355]
Canterel, Mrs., the actress, [110]
Capelli, the conjuror, [307]
Carey, the actor, [223], [230]
Cartlitch, the actor, [246]
Cats, performing, [178], [307]
Chapman, Mary Anne, the albino, [314]
"Miss, the lion-performer, [337]
"the comedian, [114], [119], [127], [132], [138], [143]
Chappell, the actor, [353]
"the showman, [272]
Charke, Mrs., the actress, [114]
Cheshire girl, wonderful, [49]
Chettle’s theatrical booth, [151]
Chetwood, the prompter, [105]
Chinese jugglers, [302], [309]
"lady, [292]
Christoff, the rope-dancer, [20]
Cibber, the tragedian, [107], [114]
Circassian lady, [290]
Clancy, the giant, [313]
Clark, the posturer, [59]
Clarke’s circus, [268], [307], [332], [341]

Clarke, Miss, the rope-dancer, [308]
Clarkson, the showman, [191]
Clench, the whistling man, [80]
Coan, the dwarf, [167]
Cooke’s circus, [249]
Corder, the murderer, head of, [303]
Cornwell, the showman, [61]
Corsican dwarf, [155], [188]
Cousins’s theatrical booth, [154]
Cow, a double, [161]
Cox, the comedian, [37]
Crawley, the puppet-showman, [83]
Crockett, the showman, [341]
Crocodile, the first exhibited, [167]
Crowther, the actor, [322]
Cushings, the pantomimists, [150], [165]
Dale’s music booth, [64]
Dancey, Mrs. and Miss, the dancers, [131]
Day, the showman, [298]
Day’s menagerie, [355], [375]
Dawson, the dwarf, [313]
Derrum, Miss, the female tumbler, [115]
Doggett, the comedian, [74], [79]
Dogs, performing, [85], [169], [178], [307]
Drury’s menagerie, [310]
Ducrow, Madame, the rope-dancer, [335]
Dunstall’s theatrical booth, [175]
Dupain, the showman, [313]
Dutch boy, wonderful, [70]
"rope-dancer, [53], [150]
Dwarf family, [298]
Dyan, Ursula, the bearded woman, [47]
Edmunds, the menagerist, [337], [355]
Egleton, Mrs., the actress, [108]
Elephant, performing, [284]
"escape of an, [288], [347]
Elliston, the theatrical manager, [236]
England, the flying pieman, [240]
Esquimaux youth, [294]
Evans, the wire-walker, [172]
Ewing’s wax-work exhibition, [306], [310]
Excell, the duettist, [123]
Fairgrieve’s menagerie, [365]

Farnham, the dwarf, [313]
Faucit, the actor, [221]
Fawkes, the conjuror, [110], [112], [117]
""showman, [116], [123], [139], [150]
Ferguson’s wax-work exhibition, [310]
Fielding, the novelist, [103], [107], [110], [113], [119], [124], [127]
Finch, the posturer, [313]
Finley, the acrobat, [73]
"Mary, the rope-dancer, [73], [78]
Fitzgerald, Mrs., the actress, [110], [123]
Fives Court drinking booth, [333]
Flemish giantess, [47]
Flockton, the juggler and showman, [191], [200], [202], [206]
Ford, the gingerbread vendor, [99]
Fossett’s circus, [358]
Frano, Mdlle. de, the dancer, [131]
Frazer, the conjuror, [303]
Frazer’s acrobatic entertainment, [341]
Freer, the tragedian, [344]
French, the single-stick player, [158]
Gaetano, the bird imitator, [187]
Garrick, the actor, [165]
German rope-dancers, [50], [63], [73]
Giffard, the theatrical manager, [106], [130]
Gipsies’ drinking booth, [333]
Girardelli, Josephine, the fire-eater, [235]
Glee-men and glee-maidens, [19]
Gobert, Madame, the athlete, [244]
Godwin, the showman, [151]
Goodwin’s theatrical booth, [143]
Gouffe, the man-monkey, [306]
Gregory, the showman, [374]
Griffin, the actor, [107], [114], [137]
Grosette, the actor, [225]
Grove’s theatre of arts, [341]
Gyngell, the showman, [207], [238], [254]
Haines, the fire-eater, [311]
Hales, the Norfolk giant, [350]
Hall, the rope-dancer, [43], [45]
""actor, [108], [119]
Hall’s museum, [192]
Hallam, the tragedian, [107], [114], [119], [127], [131], [138], [143]
Harper, the comedian, [96], [103], [109], [111], [114], [118], [137]
Harris, the cat imitator, [182]

Harris, the showman, [313]
Haydon’s theatrical booth, [320]
Heads, lecture on, [186]
Heidegger, Master of the Revels, [139]
Herring, the pantomimist, [322], [336]
Hewet, the comedian, [109]
Hilton’s menagerie, [336], [341], [359]
Hilton, Miss, the lion-performer, [336]
Hind, the actor, [121]
Hippisley, the tragedian, [108], [110], [113], [119], [127], [132], [138], [143]
"Miss, the actress, [162]
Hipson, Miss, the fat girl, [289]
Hoare, the showman, [243]
Hocus Pocus, the King’s conjuror, [30]
Hog, enormous, [154]
Holden’s glass-blowing exhibition, [299], [301]
Holland’s, Lady, mob, [125], [201], [256]
Horses, performing, [20], [23], [43], [83], [164], [178], [202], [305]
Horton, Mrs., the actress, [94]
Howard, the actor, [348], [355]
Hoyo’s wax-work exhibition, [310]
Hulett, the comedian, [105], [109], [114], [120]
Hussey’s theatrical booth, [145], [151], [153], [156]
Hyenas, tame, [308], [371]
Inchbald, Elizabeth, the actress, [196]
Irish giant, [52]
Italian rope-dancer, [40]
"sword-dancers, [154]
Ives, the showman, [191]
Jack, Manchester, the lion-keeper, [260]
Jackman’s theatrical booth, [358]
Jano, the rope-dancer, [115], [130]
Jefferies, the actor, [225]
Jobson, the puppet-showman, [191], [202], [208]
Johnson, the showman, [317], [320]
"and Lee’s theatrical booth, [321], [325], [336], [341], [343], [348], [352], [356]
Kean, the tragedian, [214], [221]
Keith, the clown, [358]
Keyes and Laine, the conjurors, [303]
Killigrew, Charles, Master of the Revels, [50]
"Thomas, the King’s jester, [49]
Lacy, Mrs., the actress, [121]

Ladder dance, [85]
Laguerre, the actor, [119]
Lane, the conjuror, [191]
Laskey, the showman, [341]
Lee, Nelson, the theatrical manager, [247], [254], [320], [346]
Lee’s theatrical booth, [102], [106], [108], [111], [114], [119], [121], [132], [138], [152], [163]
"unlicensed theatre, [255]
Legar, the actor, [132]
Leigh, the comedian, [95]
Leopard, escape of a, [232]
"a tame, [287], [310]
Leopards, performing, [368], [371]
Lincolnshire dwarf, [294]
Lion, a tame, [32], [274], [285]
"baiting with dogs, [261]
Lioness, escape of a, [241]
Lion-tiger cubs, [277], [285], [304]
Little, the comedian-hawker, [324]
Living skeleton, the, [305]
Lorenzo, the lion performer, [368]
Lorme, Madlle. de, the dancer, [106]
Luce, the dancer, [106]
Macarthy, the lion performer, [362]
Mackenzie, the hermit, [314]
Macklin, the comedian, [144]
Macomo, the lion performer, [360]
Madagascar woman, [294]
Mahoura, the cannibal chief, head of, [298]
Malay savages, [290]
Manchester Jack, the lion keeper, [260]
Manders’s menagerie, [359]
March, the clown, [50]
Maori woman, [292], [351]
Mare with seven feet, [291]
Master of the Revels, office of, [30]
Matthews, the dancer, [164]
Maughan, the showman, [289]
Melville, the actor, [349]
Menagerie, the first, [88]
Mermaids, [162], [298]
Miles’s music booth, [64], [85]
"menagerie, [209]
Miller, the comedian, [75], [77], [107], [114], [119]
Mills, the comedian, [107], [114], [119]

Monkeys, performing, [20], [23], [40], [169], [178], [314]
Monstrosities, [22], [32], [60], [161], [204], [217], [291], [310], [314], [346]
Morgan, the comedian, [121]
"Miss, the dwarf, [205]
Morgan’s menagerie, [287], [302]
Morosini, the rope-dancer, [115]
Mullart, the tragedian, [111]
Mussulmo, the rope-dancer, [151]
Mynn’s theatrical booth, [86]
Negro, wonderful, [168]
Newman and Allen’s theatrical booth, [323]
Newsome, the lion performer, [359]
Nichols, the comedian, [109]
Nokes, Mrs., the actress, [104]
Oates, the comedian, [105], [114], [119], [134], [162]
"Miss, the actress, [114], [120]
O’Brien, the Irish giant, [194], [229]
Ogden, Mrs., the dancer, [154]
Oronutu savage, [154]
Orsi, the singer, [204]
Owen, the clown, [196]
Oxberry, the comedian, [221]
Paap, the dwarf, [236]
Pack, the comedian, [95]
Palmer, the theatrical bill-sticker, [165]
Parker’s theatrical booth, [79]
Peep-shows, [289], [305], [307]
Penkethman, the elder, comedian, [71], [79], [95], [106]
""younger, comedian, [106], [108], [113], [120], [132]
Penley, the showman, [200]
Perry’s menagerie, [159]
Persian giant, [290]
Peters, the comic dancer, [131]
Petit, the showman, [115]
Phantasmagorial exhibitions, [311]
Philips, the fiddler and clown, [54], [57]
Phillips, the posturer, [113]
""showman, [164]
""comedian, [133]
"Mrs., the dancer, [134]
"the Welsh dwarf, [294]
Pidcock’s menagerie, [186]
Pierce, the gigantic Shropshire youth, [313]

Pig-faced lady, [303], [305]
Pigs, learned, [178], [243], [297], [301], [314]
Pike’s theatrical booth, [303]
Pinchbeck, the mechanist, [110], [116], [123], [134], [139]
Pinkethman, the puppet showman, [83]
Polito’s menagerie, [187], [209]
Powell, the comedian, [105]
""fire-eater, [179]
""puppet showman, [83]
Price, the equestrian, [309]
Pritchard, Mrs., the actress, [113], [120], [127]
Pullen’s theatrical booth, [105]
Punch and Judy shows, [27]
Punchinello, the puppet showman, [29]
Purden, Mrs., the actress, [121]
Quin, the comedian, [95]
Rapinese, the posturer, [131]
Ray, the comedian, [104]
Rayner’s theatrical booth, [105]
"the tumbler, [149]
"Miss, the rope-dancer, [149]
Reader, the showman, [341]
Reed, the actor, [225], [317]
Reed’s theatrical booth, [350]
Reverant, Madlle. de, the rope-dancer, [115]
Reynolds, the comedian, [104], [106]
""showman, [151], [154]
Richardson, the fire-eater, [48]
""showman, [217], [230], [235], [239], [248], [264], [302], [306], [316]
River, the tumbler, [115]
Roberts, the tragedian, [121]
Roberts, Mrs., the actress, [114]
Robinson, the conjuror, [191]
Robson, the comedian, [356], [358]
Rose’s, Miss, imitations of actresses, [187]
Rossignol, the bird trainer, [188], [193]
Roy, Madlle. le, the dancer, [131]
Rudderford, the mountebank, [50]
Ryan, the comedian, [95], [119], [127]
Saffery, the rope-vaulter, [308]
Saffry’s theatrical booth, [50]
Saker, the comedian, [256], [350]
Salway, the comedian, [113]

Samwell, the showman, [270], [309]
Saunders, Sarah, actress and acrobat, [323]
"the showman, [209], [219], [221], [231]
Scotch dwarf, [61]
"giant, [303]
Scowton’s theatrical booth, [230], [316]
Seaman, the actor, [349]
Serpents, performing, [190]
Settle, the dramatist, [86]
Shaw, Miss, the beautiful albino, [310]
"the harlequin, [344]
Shuter, the comedian, [174], [179], [182]
Silver-haired lady, [301], [351]
Simmett, the showman, [313]
Simpson, the vaulter, [80]
Skeleton, the living, [305]
Slater, Miss, the columbine, [349]
Smith, the hand-bell ringer, [179]
Spanish youth, wonderful, [61]
Spellman, Mrs., the actress, [110]
Spiller, the comedian, [95]
"Mrs., the actress, [109], [111], [121]
Spotted boy, [301]
"girl, [351]
Steward, the slack-wire performer, [168]
Stock, Elizabeth, the giantess, [300]
Stokes, the vaulter, [58]
Strand, the lion performer, [359]
Strength, feats of, [40], [98], [168], [244]
Sword dancers, [64], [85]
Talliott’s circus, [359]
Tarvey, the clown, [197]
Taylor, the dancer, [123]
Terwin, the showman, [134]
Thwaites, the actor, [225]
Thompson, the comic dancer, [131]
Tiger, a tame, [159], [283]
Tigers, performing, [371]
Tarbutt, the comedian, [138], [143]
Turkish rope-dancer, [33], [151]
"wire-walker, [144], [188]
Vanbeck, Barbara, the bearded woman, [33]
Vaughan, the actor, [225]
Vidina, Signora, the singer, [204]
Violantes, the, rope-walkers, [144]

Walker, the comedian, [94]
Wallack, the actor, [221]
Walpole, Lydia, the dwarf, [290], [313]
Warner’s theatrical booth, [150], [163], [174]
Waterloo giant, [299]
Wax-work exhibition, the first, [31]
Webber, Eliza, the dwarf, [313]
Wells, the actor, [225]
Welsh dwarf, [167]
Weston, Priscilla and Amelia, the twin giantesses, [313]
Whitehead, the fat boy, [298]
Whiteland, the dwarf, [203]
Wignell, the poet, [179]
Williamson, Mrs., the actress, [109]
Wombwell’s Menagerie, [257], [273], [302], [305], [307], [310], [337], [341], [347], [355], [365]
Woodward, harlequin and actor, [97], [138], [144]
Woolford, Miss, the rope-dancer, [336]
Wright’s menagerie, [341]
Yates, the comedian, [134], [138], [143], [162], [174], [180]
"Mrs., the actress, [144]
"Miss, the actress, [164]
Yeates, the showman, [116], [131], [163], [168]
"the conjuror, [116], [131], [133], [149], [151], [153], [157], [163], [168]
"Mrs., the actress, [157]
Yorkshire giantess, [299]

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