Thomas Thorne
Appearance


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.
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
Sources
- Sherson, Erroll, London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century, Ayer Publishing, 1925 pp. 224–225. ISBN 0-405-08969-4.
- National Portrait Gallery, London, Thomas Thorne in Saints and Sinners