Thomas Thorne

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David James & Thomas Thorne (1877)
Thomas Thorne

Thomas Thorne (1841–1918)

Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. His nephew was the actor Frank Gillmore, and his great-nieces the actresses Ruth Gillmore and Margalo Gillmore
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Thorne was married to Adelaide Newton, whom he had met when they were both actors with the Royal Strand Theatre, but the marriage was not a happy one. According to Erroll Sherson, Thomas Thorne died penniless and insane.[2]

References

  1. ^ National Portrait Gallery, London
  2. ^ Sherson (1925) p. 225

Sources

  • Sherson, Erroll, London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century, Ayer Publishing, 1925 pp. 224–225. .
  • National Portrait Gallery, London, Thomas Thorne in Saints and Sinners