William Brough (writer)

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William Brough
Graphic Magazine, April 1870

William Brough (28 April 1826 – 13 March 1870) was an English writer. As a dramatist, he wrote some of the earliest

German Reed Entertainments, as well as Victorian burlesques
, farces and other pieces.

Life and works

Brough was born in London, the son of

Newport, Monmouthshire, and apprenticed to a printer at Brecon.[3]

Theatre poster depicting young woman talking to old man, watched by spy in Prussian military uniform
Poster for Brough's A Peculiar Family (1865), one of his German Reed Entertainments

To the Liverpool Lion, a venture of his brother Robert, whom he joined in

Gallery of Illustration),[4] A Month from Home (1857),[5] My Unfinished Opera (1857),[5] Our Home Circuit (1859),[6] Seaside Studies (1861),[7] The Rival Composers (1861),[8] The Bard and his Birthday (1864),[9] and A Peculiar Family (1865).[10]

With Madge Robinson and Samuel Phelps, he toured the provinces, stopping in 1866 at the Theatre Royal, Hull.[11]

Personal life; death

In 1857, together with his brothers, Brough was a founding member of the Savage Club.[12] He married Ann Romer, the vocalist cousin of the opera singer Emma Romer.[13] Ann died a year later, leaving him one child. He subsequently remarried, and died in 1870 at age 43, leaving a widow and six children.[3] Brough was interred at London's Nunhead Cemetery.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Mrs. Barnabas Brough Dead", The New York Times, 25 November 1897, p. 7
  2. ^ Banerji, Nilanjana. "Brough, Lionel (1836–1909)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 25 May 2009
  3. ^ a b c "Brough, William (1826–1870)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. ^ "The London Theatres", The Era, 3 August 1873, p. 11
  5. ^ a b "Gallery of Illustration", The Morning Chronicle, 28 April 1857, p. 4
  6. ^ "Gallery of Illustration", The Morning Post, 21 June 1859, p. 5
  7. ^ "Gallery of Illustration", The Daily News, 21 June 1859, p. 2
  8. ^ "The Amusements of Whitsuntide", The Era, 26 May 1861, p. 11
  9. ^ "Gallery of Illustration", The Era, 15 May 1864, p. 12
  10. ^ "Gallery of Illustration", The Era, 19 March 1865, p. 10
  11. ^ Pemberton, Thomas Edgar (1900). The Kendals, a Biography. Dodd, Mead. p. 43.
  12. ^ Watson Aaron and Mark Twain. The Savage Club: A Medley of History, Anecdote, and Reminiscence, 1907, pp. 19–20, accessed 8 June 2012
  13. ^ Middleton, Lydia Miller (1897). "Romer, Emma" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  14. London Observer
    20 March 1870, p. 6
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