as listed in Diana Howard, London Theatres & Music Halls: 1850-1950 The Library Association, 1970
Compiled & Edited by Graeme Cruickshank
Note: References in this Index are to Diana Howard’s Serial Nos. not to page numbers.
This list is of individuals only. For licenses granted to companies see here.
Indices to Owners, Proprietors, Developers/Promoters, Architects, Decorators, Builders and Contractors, where listed, are available.
Th. = Theatre, Th. R. = Theatre Royal, MH = Music Hall, PH = Public House
Where possible, I have endeavoured to give the names of the venues as they were at the times of the particular licences, but there may be some errors. -Ed.
Occasionally stage play licences and music & dancing licences were granted to run concurrently, sometimes to different persons.
Persons of the same name may have been inadvertently listed together.
Some of the few typographical errors in the original may have been inadvertently carried over to this index. Apologies are offered for any confusion that might ensue.
Refer directly to Howard’s entries for further information, including former and later names of buildings. licence refusals, etc. -Ed.
Licensee | Establishment | End date (approx) | Howard serial no. |
Abbott, Charles | Rose and Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1851-52 | 667 |
Abbott, James | Three Neats’ Tongues PH | 1854-56 | 811 |
Aberg, Albert | Camel PH | 1880-81 | 128 |
Abington, Leonard Joseph | Old Mermaid PH | “1879-90 [Nov. 1890 licence refused]” | 541 |
Abraham, William | Old Mermaid PH | 1871 | 541 |
Abrahams, Abraham | Queen’s Head PH | 1891 | 633 |
Abrahams, David Albert | Scala Theatre | 1923-after 50 | 717 |
Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1924-46 (except 1940-41) | 299 | |
Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1928-30 | 674 | |
Aldwych Theatre | 1933-40, 1941-after 50 | 17 | |
Fortune Theatre | 1933 (through 1950) | 285 | |
Collins’ Music Hall | 1937-38 | 168 | |
Abrahams, David Albert | Loughborough Playhouse Ltd. and Lewisham Hippodrome | 1934-35 | 454 |
Abrahams, Frederick and Abrahams, Michael | Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) | 1863-84 | |
[Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 1884-87 | 624 | |
Abrahams, Michael | Apollo MH (Bethnal Green) | 1862-67 | 32 |
Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) [Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 1887-90, 1906-22 | 624 | |
Abrahams, Michael Leonard | Kennington Theatre | 1925-28 | 412 |
Abrahams, Morris | Earl of Effingham Saloon/East London Theatre | 1856-80 | 255 |
Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1871-94 | 560 | |
Abrahams, Morris | Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) [Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 1922-27 | 624 |
Abrams, Catherine Grace | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1886-90 | 636 |
Absell, George | Britannia PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1865-69 | 101 |
Ackland, Thomas | Enterprise PH | 1866-69 | 271 |
Adams, George | Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | 1865-67 | 141 |
Adams, John | Duke of York PH (St. Pancras)` | 1860 [licence refused] | 239 |
Adams, Ronald | Embassy Theatre | 1936-40 | 265 |
Adams, Samuel | Trocadero Music Hall | 1891-93 | 819 |
Adams, Samuel | Philharmonic Hall | 1867-69 | 400 |
Adams, Samuel Sanders, Frederick and Adams, Samuel | Philharmonic Hal | 1864-65 | 400 |
George Turnham and Adams, Samuel | Philharmonic Hall | 1865-67 | 400 |
Purkiss, William Thomas and | Royal Music Hall / Royal Holborn Empire | 1886-90 | 376 |
Adams, Thomas | Sir John Barleycorn PH | 1854-59 [1860, police complaint, licence refused] | 742 |
Adams, Thomas | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1861-63 | 837 |
Adkins, Mary | Royal Oak PH (Hackney Fields) | 1854-59 | 689 |
Agar, Mary Ann | Apollo MH | 1867-69 | 32 |
Agate, Richard | Priory PH | 1872-73 | 617 |
Ager, George Palk | Cranbourn PH | 1852-54 | 183 |
Agg, Frederick Charles | New Clown PH | 1859-61 | 515 |
Aillud, John | Crown & Anchor PH (Woolwich) | 1876 | 204 |
Aitken, Barbara | Bird Cage PH | 1876-78 | 71 |
Aitken, John Henry | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1881-82 | 86 |
Aitken, William | Bird Cage PH | 1865-76 | 71 |
Alber, Charles | Black Dog PH (Stepney) | 1890 [licence refused] | 77 |
Albery, Bronson James | Criterion Theatre | 1947-50 | 186 |
New Theatre [Albery Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre] | 1947-[?] | 514 | |
Wyndham’s Theatre | 1947-[?] | 905 | |
Albery, Bronson James and Wyndham, Howard James | Criterion Theatre | 1945-47 | 186 |
New Theatre [Albery Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre] | 1945-47 | 514 | |
Wyndham’s Theatre | 1945-47 | 905 | |
Alderson, Edward Watkins | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1881-82 | 442 |
Aldrich, Major | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1856-61 | 162 |
Alexander, Adolphus | White Hart PH (Whitechapel) | 1853-54 | 866 |
Alexander, Frederick | White Hart PH (New Cross Rd., Hatcham) | 1881 through 1888 | 867 |
Alexander, George | St. James’s Theatre | 1891-1918 | 705 |
Alexander, John Sparks | King’s Arms PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1852-60 | 422 |
Aley, Henry | Eight Bells PH | 1862-63 | 262 |
Aley, Joseph | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1867-70 | 279 |
Alford, Edward Goodson | Magpie and Stump PH | 1873-78 | 481 |
Alford, John Joseph | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1874-75 | 445 |
Algar, Richard and Bowell, Robert | Bird Cage PH | 1851-53 | 71 |
Alison, George | Builders Arms PH (Chelsea) | 1859-61 | 117 |
Alison, George | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1869-72 | 654 |
Alland, William John | Pembroke Arms Coffee Palace [Pembroke Club] | 1878-79 | 567 |
Allatt, John Dobson | Montpelier Tavern | 1867-78 | 501 |
Allatt, Mary Ann | Queen Victoria PH (Battersea) | 1884-85 | 622 |
Allcroft, Frederick William | Lyceum Theatre | 1847-55 | 476 |
Allen, Charles Downing | New Bedford Th. / Palace of Varieties | 1919-20 | 58 |
Allen, Charles Ethelstan | Hare and Hounds PH (Stoke Newington) | 1857-61 | 367 |
Allen, Frank | Finsbury Park Empire | 1913-21 | 278 |
Broadway Th. | 1914-17 | 109 | |
New Cross Empire [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1914-21 | 516 | |
Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1916-17 | 20 | |
Allen, Frederick | Royal Edward PH | 1874-77 | 682 |
Allen, James | Havering atte Bower PH | 1858-59 | 370 |
Allan, John William | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1859-63 | 228 |
Allcroft, Frederick William | Strand Theatre | 1852-55 | 766 |
Allen, John Edward | Odell Arms PH | 1860-63 | 531 |
Allen, Samuel Carson | Broadway Th. | 1921-23 | 109 |
Allen, William | Yorkshire Stingo PH (aka Albion Saloon) | 1848-54 | 910 |
Allen, William Edward | Broadway Th. | 1900-03, 1918-20 | 109 |
Alleyne, Bessie | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1870-71 | 316 |
Allen, Frank | London Hippodrome | 1913-21 | 462 |
Allerton, Charles | Lyceum Theatre | 1869-70 | 476 |
Allsop, William | Victoria Hall | 1864-66 | 833 |
Alport, Sydney | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1881-82 | 22 |
Alt, William John | Canterbury Hall | 1882-83 | 129 |
Amand, Auguste Jean Baptiste | Bedford PH | 1861-62 | 57 |
Ames, Richard James | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1880-83 | 719 |
Amber, Henry | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1859-61 | 437 |
Amor, Barnes | Evan’s Music-and-Supper Rooms | 1872-79 [Grand Hotel], 1879 [licence refused] 1880-81 | 273 |
Anderson, Mr. | Lyceum Theatre | 1855-56 | 476 |
Anderson, Anthony | Belgrave PH | 1855-63 | 62 |
Anderson, Frederick | King’s Head PH (St. Pancras) | 1865-70 | 436 [1870 licence refused following police complaint] |
Anderson, John Henry | St. James’s Theatre | 1851 | 705 |
Andreae, Otto Stuart | Royal Court Theatre | 1916-18 | 679 |
Andrews, Charles Septimus Speed | Windmill PH | 1885-88 | 888 |
Andrews, James Richard | Sir Sidney Smith PH | 1864-67 | 748 |
Andrews, John George | Pewter Platter PH (Holborn) | 1854-[?] 61 | 570 |
Anderson, James Robertson and Shepherd, Richard | Surrey Theatre | 1863-65 | 778 |
Anderson, Mary | King’s Arms PH (Kensington) | 1850-55 | 428 |
Angell, Todd | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1889 | 702 |
Angus, William Young | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1866-71 | 228 |
Applegarth, Sarah Ann | Load of Hay PH | 1877-81 | 460 |
Archbell, Joseph Richard | Hope Music Hall | 1893-94 | 384 |
Archdeacon, Albert | Aldwych Theatre | 1911-12 | 17 |
Argent, James | Camden Arms PH | 1868-69 | 126 |
Armstrong, Eliza | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1886-91 | 357 |
Armstrong, Jane | Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1878-80 | 602 |
Armstrong, John George | Earl of Effingham Saloon [East London Theatre, etc.] | 1852 & 1853-56 | 255 |
Armstrong, William | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1883-86 | 357 |
Arnold, Alfred James | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1878-79 | 852 |
Arnold, Ebenezer; Price, W.C.; Swatton, H.T. and Dawson, T.J. | Foresters Hall (Finsbury) | 1878-86 | 282 |
Arnold, John | King of Prussia PH | 1851-56 | 419 |
Arnold, Thomas Charles [Tom] | Phoenix Theatre (Charing Cross Road) | 1942-44 | 580 |
Arnold, Tom | Palace Theatre | 1946 | 554 |
Arnold, Tom and Littler, Emile | . . | 194-[?] | . . |
Casino Theatre [Prince Edward Theatre] | 1947-50 and after | 135 | |
Cambridge Theatre | 1950 and after | 125 | |
Arpthorp, Edward | Griffin MusicHall / London Music Hall [Shoreditch Empire, etc.] | 1893-95 | 739 |
Arrowsmith, William Greenville | Balham Hippodrome | 1935-37 | 46 |
Arthur, Robert | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1898-99 | 607 |
Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1899-1900 | 616 | |
Princess of Wales’ Theatre / Kennington Theatre | 1899-1912 | 412 | |
Crown Theatre [Peckham Hippodrome / Gaumont Cinema] | 1901-05 | 563 | |
Camden Theatre | 1904-08 | 127 | |
Coronet Theatre | 1905-11 | 178 | |
Fulham Theatre [Grand Theatre] | 1906-12 | 329 | |
Ascott, Lewis | Running Horse PH | 1874-77 | 700 |
Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1878-83 | 241 | |
Ash, John | Laurel Tree PH | 1874-84 | 450 [1874, licence refused to John Ash] |
Ash, John | Duke of Richmond PH | 1884-85 | 233 |
Ash, William | New Southampton Arms PH | 1884-90 | 521 |
Ashby, Charles | Anchor Hill and Coffee Palace | 1880-82 | 29 |
Ashpool, James | Horns and Chequers PH | 1870-73 | 390 |
Ashton, Miriam | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1875-78 | 783 |
Ashwell, Lena | Kingsway Theatre | 1907-17 | 443 |
[Lena Ashwell Players Ltd] | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) | 1925-37 | 823 |
Aslun, Joseph | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1860-69 | 665 |
Assiter, William | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1882-86 | 298 |
Astbury, Henry George | Grand Theatre [Streatham Town Hall not municipal building] | 1897-?1903 | 331 |
Atcheson, John | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1868-74 | 578 |
Atkins, Robert | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1867-69 | 260 |
Astley, Robert | Granville Theatre of Varieties | 1905-14 | 333 |
Aubrey, John | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1875-80 | 264 |
New Victoria Palace [‘Old Vic’] | 1876-78 | 545 | |
Austin, Edward | City of Gloucester PH | 1873-79 | 154 |
Austin, Hannah | City of Gloucester PH | 1879-80 | 154 |
Austin, Thomas | Exmouth Arms PH | 1862-64 | 275 |
Austin, William | Royal Standard PH (Bethnal Green) | 1853-54 | 693 |
Avery, John Robert | Balham Hippodrome | 1938-39 | 46 |
Avey, John Alfred | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1876-77 | 869 |
Bachhoffner, George Henry | Colosseum (Regent’s Park) | 1859-63 | 170 |
Backham, William Thomas | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1866-73 | 908 |
Backlof, Frederick | Sekforde Arms PH | 1874-79 | 720 |
Backway, John | Manchester Arms PH | 1864-66 | 482 |
Bacon, George Alexander | Assembly House PH | 1886-90 | 37 |
Bacon, John William | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1852-54 | 665 |
Bagent, Joseph | Britannia Commercial Hotel | 1858-61 | 101 |
Baildon, Frederic Neville | Shakespeare Theatre and Opera House (Battersea) | 1913-14 | 727 |
Bailey, George | Havering atte Bower PH [licence not granted] | 1861 | 370 |
Bailey, John Hinton | Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1912-13 | 303 |
Bailey, Joseph | John Bull PH | 1873-78 | 405 |
Bailey, Thomas | Blue Coat Boy PH | 1860-62 | 88 |
Bailey, William | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1893-1910 | 853 |
Bailey, William Trist | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) [Victoria Hall, Bijou Theatre] | 1866-71 | 823 |
Bairstow, Thomas | Horns and Chequers PH | 1869-70 | 390 |
Baker, Charles | Olympic Theatre – 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1880-83 | 549 |
Baker, Charles Blackburn | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1868-73 | 234 |
Baker, Charles Caryll | Henry Hengler’s Grand Cirque (Argyll St.) | 1896-[?]99 | 463 |
Baker, Charles Robert | Prendergast Arms PH | 1873-74 | 590 |
Baker, Daniel Sebbon, Jnr | Baker’s Rooms | 1852-60 | 43 |
Baker, Edward | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1867-70 | 680 |
Baker, Frank | Earl of Aberdeen PH (Hoxton) | 1854-55 | 251 |
Baker, James | Lord Raglan Music Hall and PH (Plumstead) | 1882-85 | 472 |
Baker, John | George PH (Shoreditch) | 1861-62 | 305 |
Baker, John | Saberton Arms PH | 1874-75 | 701 |
Baker, John | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1876-77 | 851 |
Baker, Thomas | Baring MH | 1864-67 | 48 |
Bale, James | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1869-73 | 162 |
Bales, Henry | Pegasus PH | 1873-74 | 566 |
Ball, Emma, Ball, William and Heath, Ellen | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1887-90 | 102 |
Ball, William and Heath, Thomas | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1885-86 | 102 |
Ball, William and Heath, Ellen | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1886-87 | 102 |
Ball, William, Ball, Emma and Heath, Ellen | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1887-90 | 102 |
Balls, Henry | Lillie Arms PH | 1850-51 | 455 |
Balmain, Rollo | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1892-93 | 616 |
Bamm, Melchior | White Hart PH (Whitechapel) [1864, licence refused following police report] | 1861-64 | 866 |
Bancroft, Sir Squire Bancroft and James, Charles James | Prince of Wales Theatre [later rebuilt as Scala Th.] | 1871-75 | 717 |
Bancroft, Sir Squire Bancroft | . . | 1875-80 | . . . . |
Haymarket, Theatre Royal | 1880-88, 1888-89 | 371 | |
Bangs, Joseph and | (Royal) Park Theatre / Hall Bangs, Herbert Farraud [Alexandra Th., etc.] c.1890 [licence refused] | 557 | |
Banger, John William | Duke of Hamilton PH | 1881-82 | 231 |
Bannister, Charles | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1861-70 | 876 |
Bannister, Joseph | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1873-79 | 876 |
Bansback, David Charles | Seven Stars PH | 1862-66 | 722 |
Barber, Robert | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1876-77 | 471 |
Barclay, George | Camberwell Palace | 1931-32 | 124 |
Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1934-39 | 20 | |
Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1942-45 | 330 | |
Barclay | see also _ Shea / Shea-Barclay | ||
Barker, Richard | Opera Comique | 1876-85 | 550 |
Barley, James | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1893-98 | 781 |
Barlow, Edward Peter | Ridley Arms PH | 1864-77 | 658 |
Barlow, William and Richard | Ridley Arms PH | 1861-64 | 658 |
Barnard, Charles Daniel | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1908-26 | 264 |
Barnard, David | Greenwich/Parthenon Palace of Varieties [prev. Crowder’s MH, etc. later Greenwich Hippodrome] | 1903-12 | 346 |
Barnard, David | Barnard’s Theatre [Woolwich Empire, etc.] | 1930-32 | 902 |
Barnard, David John | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1893-96 | 744 |
Barnard, Samuel | Barnard’s Theatre [Woolwich Empire, etc.] | 1892-1930 | 902 |
Barnard, Sidney | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1926-28 | 264 |
Barnes, David Arthur | Camel PH | 1890-91 | 128 |
Barnes, Edwin Samuel | London Theatre of Varieties / London MH [Shoreditch Empire, etc.] | 1895-1901 | 739 |
Barnes, Frank | Rock of Gibraltar PH | 1875-80 | 663 |
Barnes, George William | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1891 | 263 |
Barnes, James | Evan’s Music-and-Supper Rooms [Grand Hotel] | 1871-72 | 273 |
Barnes, Walter John | Grange PH | 1874-83 [1883, licence refused as seldom used] | 332 |
Barnett, Easter Holley | Ordnance Arms PH | 1867 | 551 |
Barnett, Frederick | Northampton Arms PH | 1863-64 | 529 |
Barnett, Frederick | Ordnance Arms PH | 1866 | 551 |
Barnett, Robert Isaac and Cober, Hyman | Bow Palace | 1921-22 | 92 |
Barnett, Robert Isaac | Bow Palace | 1922-23 | 92 |
Barnett, Solomon | Raglan Music Hall (Southwark) | 1892 [Nov. 1892, licence refused, as Barnett neither owner nor lessee] | 635 |
Barney, James | Globe and Pigeons PH / Peabody Arms PH | 1867-69 | 561 [1869, licence refused after two court cases] |
Barr, Henry | Hand and Flower PH | 1852-67 | 364 |
Barr, Mary Ann | Hand and Flower PH | 1867-69 | 364 |
Barrasford, Thomas | Lyceum Theatre | 1905-06 | 476 |
Barrasford, Thomas, Jnr | Britannia Theatre | 1908-09 | 105 |
Barrett, Daniel | Magpie Music Hall and PH [Battersea MH and Palace of Varieties] | 1869-74 | 480 |
Barrett, John | Magpie Music Hall and PH [Battersea MH and Palace of Varieties] | 1874-79 | 480 |
Barrett, Matthew | Robin Hood PH | 1852-61 | 662 |
Barrett, Matthew Richard | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1878-79 | 92 |
Barrett, Robert | Prendergast Arms PH | 1875-77 | 590 |
Barrett, William | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1887-88 | 316 |
Barrett, William Pratt | Greyhound PH (Battersea) | 1869-70 | 349 |
Barrett, Wilson | Belgravia Theatre [New Chelsea Theatre / Court Theatre] | 1879-81 | 181 |
Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1881-87 | 616 | |
New Olympic Theatre 3rd building | 1899-1900 | 549 | |
Barrington, Rutland | St. James’s Theatre | 1888-89 | 705 |
Barriskill, Thomas | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1879-83 | 357 |
Barrow, George | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1869-74 | 719 |
Barrow, Thomas | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1885-88 | 76 |
Bartholomew, Edward | Star Music Hall | 1881-83 | 761 |
Bartholomew, Jack | Phoenix Theatre (Charing Cross Road) | 1939-42 | 580 |
Bartleman, John George | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1913-14 | 853 |
. . and Goldberg, Henry John | . . | 1913 | . . |
Bartholomew, Joseph | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1870-73 | 876 |
Bartlett, Arthur Nicholas | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1879-82 | 65 |
Barton, Richard Fisher | Havering atte Bower PH | 1862-63 | 370 |
Barton, William | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1851-54 | . . |
Dodd, Henry and Jay, John | . . | 1854-55 | 673 |
Basing, Sidney | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1891-92 | 616 |
Bass, Phillis [sic] | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1870-74 | 680 |
Batchelor, Walter John | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1879-80 | 869 |
Bateman, Francis | Hand and Flower PH | 1869-71 | 364 |
Bateman, Isabella | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1881 | 702 |
Bateman, Hezekiah Linthicum | Lyceum Theatre | 1871-75 [d.22.3.75] | 476 |
Bateman, Sidney Francis | Lyceum Theatre | 1875-78 | 476 |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1879-81 | 702 | |
Bates, Charles William | Spread Eagle PH | 1885-88 | 756 |
Batley, James Lovell | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1874-75 | 323 |
Batley, Robert Edward | Three Crowns PH (Chelsea) | 1853-54 | 803 |
Battle, John F. | Victoria PH (Hackney Wick) | 1868-74 | 836 |
Batty, William | Batty’s Amphitheatre [Astley’s Th.] | 1843-53, 1860-62 | 38 |
New Westminster T.R. / Astley’s Th. | 1863 | 38 | |
Baugh, Frederic | Eastern Empire [Bow Palace] | 1912 | 92 |
Palace Th. of Varieties / Battersea Palace | 1912-24 | 51 | |
Baugh, Frederick | Britannia Theatre | 1905-08 | 105 |
Foresters Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1911-16 | 284 | |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1912-14 | 702 | |
Baum, James and Baum, Elizabeth | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1854-58 | 877 |
Baum, James Collins | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1858-69 | 877 |
Baum, John | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1851-54 | 877 |
Baum, John | Cremorne Gardens | 1870, 1874-77 | 185 |
Theatre Royal, Astley’s | 1870-71 | 38 | |
Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1872-75 | 22 | |
Baum, Elizabeth and Baum, James | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1854-58 | 877 |
Baxter, Alexander James | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1872-75 | 877 |
Baxter, Hannah | Phene Arms PH | 1864-66 | 573 |
Baxter, Marmaduke William | Phene Arms PH | 1855-64 | 573 |
Baxter, Thomas Edwin | Shakespeare Theatre and Opera House (Battersea) | 1914-16 | 727 |
Bayes, John | Sportsman PH | 1873-76 | 755 |
Bayford, John Thomas | Hole in the Wall PH | 1864 [licence refused] | 378 |
Baylis, Donald | Aldwych Theatre | 1915-19 | 17 |
Baylis, Lilian (Mary) | The ‘Old Vic’ | 1913-38 | 545 |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1931-38 | 702 | |
Baylis, Martin Spence | Offord Arms PH | 1864 | 532 |
Baylis, William Harling | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1870-74 | 636 |
Beach, Benjamin | Kenton Arms PH (Hackney) | 1862-64 | 413 |
Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1871-72 | 665 | |
Beach, Thomas Napier | Volunteer PH | 1874-76 | 842 |
Beale, William | Crown PH (Bethnal Green) | 1875-90 | 193 [licence retained 1890-91, refused 1891 LCC] |
Beale, William Edward | Athenaeum (Islington) | 1895-1903 | 39 |
Beard, Frederick Frampton | Empress of Russia PH | 1885-?89 | 268 |
Beard, Jacob | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1879 | 585 [licence not granted] |
Beard, James | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1876-77 | 585 |
Beard, Richard Isaac | Cross Keys Music Hall | 1874-83 | 190 |
Beardwell, Joshua | Brown Bear PH (Knightsbridge) | 1880-86 | 112 |
Beaumont, George Robson | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1911-13 | 853 |
Beaumont, Stephen | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1879-82 | 471 |
Beaver, William Thomas | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1873-77 | 895 |
Beckett, Alfred | Copenhagen PH | 1855-58 | 177 |
Beckett, Violet Marion | Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1931-36 | 765 |
Bedding, William Henry | Devonshire Arms PH | 1870-74 | 214 |
Shakespeare PH | 1875-84 | 726 | |
Bedwell, Mary Ann | Trafalgar Beer House (City Road) | 1884-90 | 815 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Bedwell, Robert | Trafalgar Beer House (City Road) | 1877-84 | 815 |
Beech, James Lewis | Old Three Colts PH / Three Colts PH (Stratford, Bow) | 1865-66 | 544 & 798 |
Queen’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1869-70 | 629 | |
Beerbohm Tree, Henry | see under Tree (below) | ||
Behning, Albert D.H. | Prince Regent PH (St. George in the East)) | 1865-85 | 610 |
Beitler, Nathan Gersh | New Yiddish Theatre | 1944-47 | 523 |
Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1948-49 | 20 | |
Belby, George | Hop Pole PH | 1874 [licence refused] | 383 |
Belchamber, Francis | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1863-64 | 228 |
Bell, Joseph Bridge | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1866-69 | 757 |
Bell, Richard Shaw | White Lion PH (Woolwich) | 1880-85 | 875 |
Bellamy, George Summers | Novelty Theatre | 1882-83 | 443 |
Bellinger, Ambrose Henry | Black Horse PH (Stepney) | 1890-91 | 81 |
Belsey, Albert Charles | Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1929-32 | 478 |
Belton, Frederick | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1871-72 | 702 [27.4.1872 licence returned] Cabinet Theatre / Assembly Rooms |
[King’s Cross Theatre] | 1872-73 | 434 | |
Belton, William, Jnr | Lansdowne Arms PH [Collins’ Music Hall] | 1851-52, 1855-56 | 168 |
Belsey, Charles Henry | Cross Keys Music Hall | 1883-?87 | 190 |
Benjamin, Charles | Navy, Army & Air Force Institute and Royal Artillery Theatre and Opera House | 1940-48 | 676 |
Benjamin, Morris | Manor House | 1887-90 | 484 |
Benjamin, Morris Edgar | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1931-32 | 607 |
Bennett, George | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1884-85 | 442 |
Bennett, Henry | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1867-74 | 78 |
Bennett, Henry George Dudley | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1905-07 | 20 |
Shakespeare Theatre and Opera House (Battersea) | 1907-09, 1912-13 | 727 | |
Bennett, William | Old King John’s Head PH | 1861-62 | 539 |
Bennett, William | Shakespeare Theatre and Opera House (Battersea) | 1896-1907, 1909-12 | 727 |
Benns, George | Fox and Bull PH [Royal Harmonic Hall] | 1848-54 | 289 |
Bent, William | Abbey PH | 1864-65 | 1 |
Bentell, Robert | Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1871-77 | 602 |
Benwell, William | Island Queen PH | 1863-65 | 399 |
Berg, Albert | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1881-85 | 869 |
Berney, Samuel [Semyl Bernstein] | Collins’ Music Hall | 1928-29 | 168 |
Berny, Samuel & Collins Music Hall | Collins’ Music Hall | 1929-32 | 168 |
Bernstein, Alexander | Mile End Empire [Paragon MH, etc.] | 1913-21 | 494 |
Bernstein, Semyl [k.a. Samuel Berney] | Collins’ Music Hall | 1928-29 | 168 |
Bernstein, Sydney Lewis | Phoenix Theatre (Charing Cross Road) | 1930-32 | 580 |
Bernstein, Sydney Lewis | Empire Kinema (Lewisham) Ltd. and Lewisham Hippodrome | 1925-28 | 454 |
Bernstein, Sydney Lewis and Lewisham Theatres Ltd | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1932-34 | 454 |
Berry, Oscar | Camberwell Empire | 1913-15 | 123 |
Bertram, Linda | Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 2nd building | 1870 | 300 |
Besant, Horace | Load of Hay PH | 1875-76 | 460 |
Bessell, Edward | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1903 | 697 |
Best, Geoffrey Charles | Greenwich Palace of Varieties [prev. Crowder’s MH, etc. later Greenwich Hippodrome] | 1901-03 | 346 |
Betjemann, Henry | Crown PH (Whitechapel) | 1861-63 | 198 |
Betjemann, Sarah | Crown PH (Whitechapel) | 1859-61 | 198 |
Bettinson, Arthur Frederick | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1915-18 | 853 |
Betts, James | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1882-90 | 601 |
Beyfus, Alfred | Globe Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave.) [Hicks Th./Gielgud Th.] | 1914 | 317 |
Bianchi, Peter | Bianchi’s Waxwork Exhibition Rooms (Victoria Hall) | 1854-61 | 833 |
Bickerton, William Henry | Camden Hippodrome [Camden Theatre] | 1928-30 | 127 |
Kennington Theatre | 1928-30 | 412 | |
Mile End Empire [Paragon MH, etc.] | 1929-30 | 494 | |
Biddick, Edmund, Jnr | Walpole Arms PH | 1870-73 | 845 |
Biddles, James | Bower Saloon at Dukes’s PH [Bower Th.] | 1845-54 | 93 |
Bignell, Robert Richard | [?] Ancient Hall of Rome / Argyll Rooms [Trocadero Music Hall] | 1857-79 . . | / |
Royal Trocadero Palace of Varieties | 1882-88 | 819 | |
Bill, Charles Gratton | City of Gloucester PH | 1864-65 | 154 |
Billing, John | Bald Faced Stag PH | 1871-72 | 44 |
Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1875-78 | 191 | |
Devonshire Arms PH | 1878-81 | 214 | |
Billing, Sarah | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1891-92 | 908 |
Billing, Thomas | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1888-91 | 908 |
Billings, Albert Henry | Piccadilly Theatre | 1939-44 | 581 |
Billingshurst, Eliza Sophia | Bird Cage PH | 1876-78 | 71 |
Billingshurst, Henry Havelock | Bird Cage PH | 1858-62 | 71 |
Binge, Edward | Duchess of York PH | 1873-82 | 224 |
Bint, George | Grosvenor Arms PH | 1856-62 | 354 |
Birch, Charles | Red Cow PH (Dalston) | 1855-56 | 644 |
Birch, William Henry | Windmill PH | 1884-85 | 888 |
Bird, Isaac | Old Commodore PH (Whitechapel) | 1870 [licence refused] | 533 |
Bird, William Thomas | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1886-90 | 852 |
Birds, Thomas | Cherry Tree PH (Shoreditch) | 1866-71 | 147 |
Birlein, John Dexter | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1884-87 | 680 |
Birnstingl, Avigdor Lewis | Fulham Theatre [Grand Theatre] | 1912-14 | 329 |
Bishop, Charles | Royal Surrey Gardens | 1860-62 | 696 |
Surrey / Royal Surrey Gardens Music Hall | 1861-72 | 777 | |
Bishop, Frederick | City of London PH | 1855-56 | 155 |
Bishop, Frederick | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1877-78 | 203 |
Bishop, James | Duke of Wellington PH (Drury Lane, Westminster) | 1872-73 | 235 |
Bishop, Richard | Grosvenor Arms PH | 1854-55 | 354 |
Blackman, Edward | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1864-66 | 640 |
Blackman, Edward | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1873-82 | 640 |
Blackman, Harriet Hannah | Old Commodore PH (Poplar) | 1859-63 | 534 |
Blackman, Rebecca | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1882-83 | 640 |
Blackman, Sarah | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1866-73 | 640 |
Blackman, Timothy | Old Commodore PH (Poplar) | 1855-58 | 534 |
Blackney, William | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1862-64 | 78 |
Blackwood, Virginia, Miss | Surrey Theatre | 1872-73 | 778 |
Blake, John | Amherst Arms PH | 1854-62 | 27 |
Blake, Thomas | White Horse PH (Bethnal Green) | 1861-76 | 872 |
Blanchett, George Archer | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1885-92, 1904 | 719 |
Blanchett, Urbane | Bishop Bonner PH | 1897-98 | 72 |
Bland, Thomas | Red Lion and Spread Eagle PH | 1859-60 | 653 |
Blenkin, James | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1893-95 | 323 |
Blest, Alexander Melville | King’s Arms PH (Woolwich) | 1860-[?] | 433 |
Blinkham, Mary Matilda | Red Lion PH (Stepney) | 1856-68 | 649 [1868, licence refused owing to Sunday opening} |
Bliss, Francis John | Sebright MH [Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1912 | 719 |
Bliss, Isaac | Havelock Arms PH | 1859-67 | 369 |
Bliss, James | Bedford Arms Tavern & Tea Garden | 1856-58 | 58 |
Blizard, George | Fox and Bull PH [Royal Harmonic Hall] | 1854-57 | 289 |
Block, Alfred Samuel | City of Gloucester PH | 1880-81 | 154 |
Block, John | City of Gloucester PH | 1881-84 | 154 |
Bloom, Isadore | Walworth Empire / Montpelier Palace | 1907-09 | 501 |
Bloom, Joseph and Leslie and Jenkins, Thomas | Holloway Empire | 1947 | 380 [trading as Bloom Bros.] |
Bloomfield, James | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1854-56 | 690 |
Bloomfield, Samuel | New Southampton Arms PH | 1866-72 | 521 |
Blumson, James | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1876-77 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | see | 739 | |
Blumson, William | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1875-77 | 356 |
Blush, Cecil Emanuel, B. & J. Theatres Ltd and | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1935-38 | 454 |
Blyth, James | George and Vulture PH | 1863-66 | 307 |
City of London PH | 1871-72 | 155 | |
Blyther, Henry | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1871-74 | 832 |
Bode, Milton and | Dalston Theatre | 1898-1914 | 208 |
Compton, Edward | Kennington Theatre | 1912-18 | 412 |
Bolton, George | Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 1st building] | 1846-47 | 549 |
(New) Strand Theatre | 1850 | 766 | |
Boncey, George Henry | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1868-69 | 852 |
Bond, Christopher and Spiers, Felix William | Criterion Theatre (first building) | 1874-80 | 186 |
Bond, James | Jolly Anglers PH (Finsbury) | 1865-75 | 407 |
Bond, James | Manor Theatre | 1891 | 483 |
Bond, John | Queen’s Head PH | 1877-88 | 633 |
Bonken, John | White Bear PH | 1864-73 | 860 |
Bonner, George and Lovell, William | Britannia Saloon [Royal French Circus & -] | 1856-60 | 104 |
Bonner, Thomas | Hope Music Hall | 1891-92 | 384 |
Bonney, James | Spread Eagle PH | 1864 | 756 [licence refused] |
Bonny, John Edward | King’s Arms PH (Hackney) | 1869-79 | 429 |
Booth, Allan | Athenaeum (Islington) | 1875-89, 1894-95 | 39 |
Booth, William (Salvation Army) | Grecian Theatre | 1882-83 | 336 |
Booty, John | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1867-73 | 321 |
Boracchi, Ercole and Corti, Enrico | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1885 | 375 |
Borley, Henry Jones and | Duchess of Kent’s Theatre Monro, Sarah Elizabeth [Barnard’s Th., Woolwich Empire, etc.] | 1890-91 | 902 |
Borrodaile, William McLean | Grand Theatre, Islington | 1896-1900 | 400 |
Borrow, William | Albert Saloon | 1850-52 | 10 |
Bose, Henry John William | Blue Anchor PH (Wapping) | 1878-83 | 85 |
Bosley, Richard | North Woolwich Gardens [ … and Theatre, Royal Pavilion, etc.] | 1882-83, 1885-88 | 691 |
Bostock, Thomas Henry | Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1933-39 | 296 |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1933-40 | 725 | |
Apollo Theatre | 1933-40, 1941-43 | 33 | |
Adelphi Theatre | 1933-40, 1942-43 | 6 | |
Cambridge Theatre | 1933-43 | 125 | |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1933-43 | 375 | |
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1933-43 | 478 | |
St. James’s Theatre | 1933-43 | 705 | |
Boston, Walter | Angel and Crown PH (Shoreditch) | 1871-75 | 31 |
Botting, Robert Henry | Marylebone Music Hall | 1861-94 | 491 |
Bottomley, John M[offat] | Crown & Anchor PH (Bermondsey) | 1870-71 | 201 |
Old Margate Town PH | 1872-73 | 540 | |
Bouchier, Arthur | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1900-10, 1913-14 | 299 |
Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1919-27 | 765 | |
Bouchier, Arthur, Sleath, Herbert, and | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1910-13, 1914-15 | 299 |
Boucicault, Dion | Batty’s Amphitheatre [Astley’s] | 1862-63 | 38 |
Boult, William Smith | Old Will Summers PH | 1859-61 | 547 |
Boulter, George Barnett | Chequers PH | 1875-76 | 145 |
Bovill, Claude Hardwick Knight | Coronet Theatre | 1921-23 | 178 |
Bowden, Alfred John | George PH (Shoreditch) | 1862-73 | 305 |
Bowden, William | George PH (Shoreditch) | 1855-61 | 305 |
Bowell, Robert and Algar, Richard | Bird Cage PH | 1852-53 | 71 |
Bowen, John Robert | Seven Stars PH | 1852-62 | 722 |
Crown PH (Bethnal Green) | 1862-65 | 193 | |
Bowker, Samuel | Crown PH (Battersea) | 1870-75 | 194 |
Bowkett, George | Childe Harold PH | 1863-64 | 150 |
Bowkett, Thomas Edward | Childe Harold PH | 1861-67, 1870-74 | 150 |
Bowyer, Thomas William | London Casino [Prince Edward Theatre] | 1936-37 | 135 |
Whitehall Theatre | 1937-39 | 884 | |
Boyce, Henry | Shakespeare’s Head PH | 1863-89 | 728 |
Boyd, John | Horse and Groom PH | 1866-68 | 391 [1868, licence refused] |
Boys, George | Lord Nelson PH (Devas St. formerly Park St., Stepney) | 1863-88 | 469 |
Bracey, Joseph | Queen Eleanor PH | 1880-85 | 620 |
Bradgate, James | Black Eagle PH | 1877-82 | 79 |
Brading, Henry | Albert Saloon | 1843-50 | 10 |
Brading, Henry | Sir Robert Peel PH | 1852-58 | 747 |
Bradley, Edgar | Cabinet Theatre / Assembly Rooms [King’s Cross Theatre] | 1870-71 | 434 |
Bradley, Edward | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1872-73 | 904 |
Bradly, Edward James | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1890 | 837 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Bradly, William George | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1883-90 | 837 |
Bradwell, Edmund William and | (Royal) Charing Cross Theatre Field, William Riderwood [later Folly / Toole’s Theatre] | 1869-72 | 814 |
Brady, William Hartrill | Hope Music Hall | 1869-73 | 384 |
Bragg, Robert | Britannia PH (Britannia St., Islington) | 1852-63 | 99 |
Bragger, William Henry | White Swan PH (Deptford) | 1846-50 | 880 |
Braham, Charles | St. James’s Theatre | 1857-59 | 705 |
Braham, John Hamilton | St. James’s Theatre | 1855-57 | 705 |
Brammall, Elles | Britannia Theatre | 1910 | 105 |
Brand, Henry | Jolly Sailor PH (Radcliffe Highway) | 1853-54 | 410 |
Brand, Mary Ann | Jolly Sailor PH (Radcliffe Highway) | 1854-57 | 410 |
Brand, Tita | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1905 | 725 |
Brand, William | Brown Bear PH (Whitechapel) | 1848-59 | 114 |
Brandes, Hinrich | White Bear PH | 1860-64 | 860 |
Brandreth, Alfred Barrett | Dalston Circus [Dalston Theatre] | 1886-88 | 208 |
Bratt, Edwin | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1886-97 | 783 |
Bray, Thomas | Sportsman PH | 1863-69 | 755 |
Bray, William | John of Jerusalem PH | 1885-90 | 406 |
Bremer, John | Bell PH (Middlesex Row, Stepney) | 1855-63 | 64 |
Brettingham, Elisa Cesarine | Black Eagle PH | 1888 | 79 |
Brettingham, Richard Fresta | Black Eagle PH | 1882-88 | 79 |
Brewster, William Henry | Eagle and Child Coffee Tavern | 1882-89 | 249 |
Brian, John Frederick | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1873-75 | 783 |
Brian, John Frederick | Duchess of Kent’s Theatre [Barnard’s Th., Woolwich Empire, etc.] | 1891-92 | 902 |
Brian, Mary Ann | New Queen’s Theatre [Novelty/Kingsway Th.] | 1891-92 | 443 |
Brickell, Alfred | Bald Faced Stag PH | 1872-80 | 44 |
Brickwell, Henry | Canterbury Th. of Varieties / MH | 1913-23 | 129 |
Brickwell, Harry Thomas | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1897-1900 | 299 |
Henry Thomas | Royal Court Theatre | 1902-03 | 679 |
Duchess Palace [Balham Hippodrome] | 1903-04 | 46 | |
Brickwell, Pinero | Piccadilly Theatre | 1937-39 | 581 |
Bridge, Thomas | Seven Stars PH | 1874-75 | 722 |
Bridger, Henry Coomber | Hare and Hounds PH (St.Pancras) | 1856-57 | 366 |
Bridges, Henry | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1880-81 | 234 |
Briggs, Alfred Herbert and Kirkham, George, [Trustees of the Will of John Lancaster] | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1905 | 725 |
Briggs, Alfred Henry [sic] and Kirkham, G.W.C. | . . | 1906-07 | . . |
Briggs, Elizabeth | Royal George PH | 1854-63 | 683 |
Briggs, Henry | Royal George PH | 1853-54 | 683 |
Brigham, Margaret | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1885-86 | 783 |
Brighten, Charles Richard | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1893-95 | 552 |
Brill, John | Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties | 1893-1903 | 376 |
Brinkworth, William Henry | Old Mermaid PH | 1877-79 | 541 |
Briscoe, Samuel | Windmill PH | 1888-90 | 888 |
Bristo [sic], John Henry | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1864-73 | 14 |
Bristow, William | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1864-65 | 14 |
Bristo [sic], William | Royal Edward PH | 1866-67 | 682 |
Britt, Charles William | (Old) Will Summers PH | 1862-63 | 547 |
Broadbridge, Henry | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1886 | 78 |
Broadhurst, Thomas William and Broadhurst, George Howells | (Royal) Strand Theatre | 1899-1900 | 766 |
Brockman, Lewis | Mirror Theatre [Royal Holborn Theatre] | 1876-77 | 244 |
Brogan, Thomas | White Horse PH (Baldwin’s Gdns.,Holborn) | 1855-56 | 868 |
Broggreff, James | Ennismore Arms PH | 1850-51 | 269 |
Bromhead, Ralph [Sidney] | Bedford MH | 1932-34 | 58 |
Camberwell Palace | 1932-34 | 124 | |
Islington Empire [formerly Grand Theatre] | 1932-34 | 400 . . [A.B.C. Ltd.] | |
Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1930-34 | 674 | |
Bromhead, Reginald Charles | London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1949-? | 465 |
Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1949-? | 267 | |
Metropolitan Theatre | 1949-? | 493 | |
Bromley, Thomas How | Duchess of Clarence PH | 1850-57 | 222 |
Prince Albert PH (Shoreditch) | 1861-62 | 594 | |
Devonshire Arms PH | 1862-64 | 214 | |
Bromwich, Frederick Dudman | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1928-35 | 699 |
Bromwich, Frederick William | Bromwich Theatre [Variety Theatre] (Shoreditch) | 1906-07 | 829 |
Brooks, John McMullen | Shoreditch Empire [London MH, etc.] | 1916-21 | 739 |
Brooks, Thomas | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1859-60 | 578 |
Brooks, William | Sir John Falstaff PH | 1847-51 | 745 |
Broom, Thomas | Eagle Tavern MH [Royal Eagle MH] | 1884-85 | 248 |
Broome, Benjamin | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1870-73 | 585 |
Broomfield, Richard and Finnes, Thomas W. | Old Commodore PH (Poplar) | 1882-83 | |
Broomfield, Richard and Webb, Charles | . . | 1883-84 | |
Broomfield, Richard | . . | 1885-90 | 534 [Nov. 1890 licence refused] |
Brough, William | Lyceum Theatre | 1860 | 476 |
Brown, Alexander | Offord Arms PH | 1874-76 | 532 |
Brown, Charles | Railway PH (Nunhead) | 1874-86 | 639 |
Brown, Ebenezer | Pier PH | 1848-51 | 584 |
Brown, Edward | Great Eastern PH | 1878-87 | 335 |
Brown, Eliza | Moore Arms PH | 1882-83 | 502 |
Brown, Gilbert | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1946 (through 1950) | 299 |
Brown, Harry Thomas | Spread Eagle PH | 1882-83 | 756 |
Brown, James | Marquis Cornwallis PH | 1857-65 | 489 |
Brown, James Philip | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1864-66 | 757 |
Brown, John | Bedford PH | 1854-55 | 57 |
Brown, John Dowding | Piccadilly Theatre | 1932-35, 1936-37 | 581 |
Brown, Joseph | Cobham’s Head PH | 1854-57 | 165 |
Brown, Joseph | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1868-69 | 869 |
Brown, Richard | Priory PH | 1873-77 | 617 |
Britannia PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1878-84 | 101 | |
Brown, Robert Alfred | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1864-69 | 834 |
Brown, Summers | Islington Empire [formerly Grand Theatre] | 1927-31 | 400 |
Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1928-31 | 363 | |
Camberwell Palace | 1928-32 | 124 | |
Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1928-32 | 330 | |
Kilburn Empire | 1929-30 | 414 | |
Brown, Summers, Greater London Theatres and Cinemas Ltd and | Kilburn Empire | 1928-29 | 414 |
Brown, Thomas Conrad Simmons | Railway PH (Nunhead) | 1886-91 | 639 |
Brown, William | Albion PH (Hammersmith) | 1851-53 | 12 |
Brown, William | Weaver’s Arms PH | 1854-55 | 849 |
Brown, William | Earl Grey PH | 1857-73 | 250 |
Britannia PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1874-78 | 101 | |
Brown, William | Moore Arms PH | 1879-82 | 502 |
Browne, Maurice | Globe Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave.) [Hicks Th./Gielgud Th.] | 1930-33 | 317 |
Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1930-33 | 626 | |
Bruce, Edgar | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1879-81 | 699 |
Prince of Wales Theatre [later rebuilt as Scala Th.] | 1880-72 | 717 | |
Prince’s (Prince of Wales Theatre) (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1884-87 | 607 | |
Bruce, Thomas and Gibson, John William | Brecknock Arms PH | 1848-51 | 94 |
Brumfit, Charles | Cyder Cellars | 1854-58 | 207 |
Bruns [sic, ? Burns], John | Royal Sovereign PH | 1855-60 | 692 |
Bruton, Joseph | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1879-87 | 697 |
Bryant, Abraham | Old Mermaid PH | 1874 | 541 |
Brydon, John | Cabinet Theatre / Assembly Rooms at various times [King’s Cross Theatre] | 1854-74 | 434 |
Bryer, George French | [?] Ancient Hall of Rome [Trocadero Music Hall] | 1849-50 | 819 |
Bryer, Maria | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1887 [licence refused] | 191 |
Bryon, Henry | Assembly House PH | 1860-62 | 37 |
Bryson, John Burns | Adelaide Gallery, Th. of Varieties | 1861-62 | 5 |
Colosseum (Regent’s Park) | 1863-64 | 170 | |
Bubear, George | Magpie and Stump PH | 1885-86 | 481 |
Buchanan, Patrick Robertson | Manor Theatre | 1893 | 483 |
Buckenham, Charles, Jnr | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1867-73 | 784 |
Buckhurst, Mr. | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | c.1850 | 284 |
Buckhurst, Charles | Newmarket PH | 1866-71 | 525 |
Buckingham, Alfred | Belvidere PH | 1861-67 | 68 |
Buckley, Richard | Queen’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1870-74 | 629 |
Buckley, William | Morpeth Castle PH | 1875-76 | 504 |
Buckley, William | Queen’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1878-83 | 629 [1883, licence refused as hall seldom used] |
Buckmaster, John | Swan PH (Hungerford Market) | 1848-51 | 785 |
Buckmaster, Joseph | Swan PH (Hungerford Market) | 1851-54 | 785 |
Buckstone, John Baldwin | Little Theatre in the Haymarket / Haymarket Theatre / Theatre Royal | 1853-78 | 371 |
Budds, Alfred William Johnson | Alexandra Hall | 1876-84 | 18 |
Bugler, Ernest Frederick | Criterion Theatre | 1904-09 | 186 |
Criterion Theatre | 1910-17 | 186 | |
Bull, Henry | Old Mermaid PH | 1870 | 541 |
Bullimore, Joseph Samuel | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1887-88 | 279 |
Bullock, Alfred John | Earl of Ellesmere PH | 1885-87 | 254 |
Bullwinkle, Henry | Crooked Billet PH | 1885 | 187 [application withdrawn] |
Bulman, William Reid | Old Mermaid PH | 1875 | 541 |
Bulwer, May | Garrick Theatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1879-80 | 300 |
Bundock, William | Horns and Chequers PH | 1869-70 | 390 |
Bunn, Alfred and Davidge, Mrs. Frances | Surrey Theatre | 1847-48 | 778 |
Bunn, Robert | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1869-72 | 898 |
Bunn, Robert | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1873-77 | 834 |
Bunn, William | Woodman PH (Bethnal Green) | 1864-71 | 900 |
Bunn, William George | Woodman PH (Bethnal Green) | 1856-62 | 900 [1862, licence refused] |
Burch, John Kirk | Queen’s Arms PH (? Pimlico/Hanover Square) | 1876-82 | 632 |
Burden, John George | Cross Keys Music Hall | 1867-70 | 190 |
Burden, Richard James | Old Fountain PH | 1879-91 | 538 |
Burdon, George | Macclesfield Arms PH | 1854-67 | 479 |
Burgoyne, John Robert | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) [Victoria Hall, Bijou Theatre] | 1863-66 | 823 |
Burke, Edmund | (Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1882 | 588 |
Burkin, Benjamin | Surprise PH (Christchurch Terr., Chelsea) | 1869-70 | 776 |
Burleigh, Charles Thomas | New Victoria Palace [‘Old Vic’] | 1873-74 | 545 |
Burley, Richard | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Millwall) | 1864-65 | 398 |
Burling, George | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1880-81 | 601 |
Bernard, Henry | White Swan PH (Islington) | 1859-64 | 883 |
Burnaud, Francis Cowley | Mirror Theatre [Royal Holborn Theatre] | 1876 | 244 |
Burnaud, Frederick C. | Opera Comique | 1875 | 550 |
Burney, William Henry | Rock of Gibraltar PH | 1880-82 | 663 |
Burney, William Henry | Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1898-1900 | 267 |
London Music Hall /London Th. of Varieties /Shoreditch Empire, etc. | 1901-16 | 739 | |
Burnick, Thomas | Jew’s Harp PH | 1853-54 | 404 |
Burnman, John | City of York PH | 1855-61 | 159 |
Burnman, Margaret | City of York PH | 1854-55 | 159 |
Burns [?]( printed Burns), John | Royal Sovereign PH | 1855-60 | 692 |
Burran, William John | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1875-77 | 76 |
Burrell, William | Camel PH | 1872-74 | 129 |
Burrows, Robert | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1875-77 | 437 |
Burt, William Augustus | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1881 | 316 |
Burton, William | Wheatsheaf PH and Music Hall (Holborn) | 1856-58 | 858 |
Burtwell, William | Old King John’s Head PH | 1864-6 | 539 |
Burward, John Frederick | Morpeth Castle PH | 1872-75 | 504 |
Bury, Samuel | Britannia Theatre | 1904-05 | 105 |
Busbridge, Charles | Cape of Good Hope PH | 1887-90 | 131 |
Busbridge, Henry | Cape of Good Hope PH | 1890 | 131 [licence retained] |
Busby, George Charles | Royal Edward PH | 1870-74 | 682 |
Bushell, Daniel | Queen Victoria PH (Bethnal Green) | 1865-70 | 621 |
Bushell, Henry | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1882-83 | 65 |
Butcher, Frederick | Brecknock Arms PH | 1854-56 | 94 |
Butcher, James | Three Cranes PH | 1854-56 | 802 |
Butler, George | Falcon PH | 1878-85 | 276 |
Butler, William David | Victoria PH (Rotherhithe) | 1875-79 | 841 |
Butt, Alfred | Palace Theatre of Varieties | 1912-23 | 554 |
Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1912-30 | 626 | |
Globe Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave.) [Hicks Th./Gielgud Th.] | 1914-30 | 317 | |
Adelphi Theatre | 1916-19 | 6 | |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1916-20 | 296 | |
Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1916-24 | 266 | |
Victoria Palace | 1912-30 | 834 | |
Butt, Thomas McCluer | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1882-87 | 279 |
Butterworth, Frederick John | Bedford Th. | 1941-46 | 58 |
Butterworth, Frederick J. and Kilburn Varieties Ltd | Kilburn Empire | 1943-47 | 414 |
Butterworth, Frederick William | St. John’s Wood PH | 1879-82 | 707 |
Buxley, Thomas John | Westminster Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1877-85 | 855 |
Buxton, William Thomas | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1882-94 | 388 |
Byatt, Sydney | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1852-55 | 84 |
Byrmes, Michael and Neagherson, George | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1889 | 702 |
Cable, William | Cross Keys Music Hall | 1870-73 | 190 |
Cadd, John | Bricklayers Arms PH | 1862-68 | 95 |
Cadd, Samuel | Bricklayers Arms PH | 1868 | 95 |
Caddell, Archibald William | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1880-87 | 191 |
Cairns, William Jordan | Saberton Arms PH | 1876-84 | 701 [1884, licence refused as had not been used for 4 years] |
Cakebread, George | Red Deer PH | 1881-83 | 645 [1883, licence refused as seldom used] |
Cakebread, Susannah Charles | Red Deer PH | 1879-81 | 645 |
Caldecourt, Henry | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1888-90 | 397 |
Caldecourt, William Henry | City of London PH | 1870-71 | 155 |
Calhery, Charles | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1877-78 | 92 |
Callaway, William | Prince of Wales PH (Wellesley Road, St. Pancras) | 1857-60 | 606 |
Callow, John | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1866-69 | 392 |
Calver [Kalber], George Frederick | Chequers PH | 1868-75 | 145 |
Calvert, Louis | Broadway Th. | 1907-09 | 109 |
Cameron, Donald Gordon | Henry Hengler’s Grand Cirque (Argyll St.) | 1895-96 | 463 |
Cammack, John | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1876-77 | 448 |
Campbell, Herbert | Granville Theatre of Varieties | 1898-1905 | 333 |
Campbell; Peter | Burdett Hall | 1866-76 | 121 |
Campe, Cord | Crown PH (Stepney) | 1867-68 | 195 |
Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1871-75 | 837 | |
Canish, John Latham | Ship PH (Islington) | 1854 | 731 [Petition sent in this name. No notice of transfer. Opposition petitions] |
Cann, Walter William | Gipsy Queen PH | 1870-74 | 310 |
Cannaway, Walter William | Island Queen PH | 1865-67 | 399 |
Cannon, Charles; Price, W.C.; Swatton, H.T. and Cotton, F.K. | Foresters Hall (Finsbury) | 1872-76 | 282 |
[as above less F.K. Cotton] | 1876-77 | . . | |
[as above with T.J. Dawson] | 1877-78 | . . | |
Cannon, Walter | Ashby Castle PH | 1886-90 | 36 |
Capon, Charles | Baring MH | 1886-87 | 48 |
Capon, Daniel Christopher | Prince Alfred PH | 1873-80 | 595 |
Carden, Leonard | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1882-86 | 508 |
Carey, George | Havelock Arms PH | 1867-69 | 369 |
Carillon, Edward | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1886 | 375 |
Carlton, Arthur | Morton’s/Carlton Theatre [Greenwich Theatre, etc. (London Road)] | 1901-11 | 347 |
Carmon, Nicholas Joseph | Pied Horse PH | 1852-65 | 583 |
Carms, Peter | Comet PH | 1854-62 | 171 |
Carnell, Richard | Britannia PH (Wapping) | 1872 | 103 [refused licence for harbouring questionable characters] |
Carr, George Garstin | Everyman Theatre | 1927-28 | 274 |
Carr, Joseph William Comyns | Comedy Theatre | 1893-96 | 170 |
Lyceum Theatre | 1899-1903 | 476 | |
Carr, Robert | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1853-54 | 578 |
Carr, Robert | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1856-60 | 838 |
Carrington, Dowman | Kenton Arms PH (Hackney) | 1862-64 | 413 |
Carrington (Petherbridge), Sarah Jane | King and Queen PH (St. Marylebone) | 1882-86 | 417 |
Carrington, William D. | Saberton Arms PH | 1861-71 | 701 |
Carroll, Patrick | Albert PH | 1854-61 | 9 |
Carte, see: D’Oyly Carte | |||
Carter, Benjamin | North Woolwich Gardens [ … and Theatre, Royal Pavilion, etc.] | 1885-88 | 691 |
Carter, James | Camden Arms PH | 1866-68 | 126 |
Carter, John | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1877-? | 173 |
Carter, John Richard | St. Helena Music Hall, Gardens and PH | 1874-76 | 704 |
Carter, Louisa and McJon | Crown & Anchor PH (Woolwich) | 1875-76 | 204 |
Cartwright, Charles, and Dana, Henry | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1895-96 | 243 |
Carwood, Henry | Camel PH | 1866-68 | 129 |
Cashstein, David Jacob | Paragon Music Hall [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1911-12 | 494 |
Cason, Thomas | Windsor Castle Music Hall and PH (Camberwell) | 1880-88 | 890 |
Castle, Emma | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1873 | 526 |
Castle, Thomas, Jnr | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1867-69 | 65 |
Catchpole, Benjamin | Assembly House PH | 1862-63 | 37 |
Catchpole, Mary Ann | Assembly House PH | 1863-78 | 37 [license rarely used] |
Cathie, Herbert Hames [sic] | New Southampton Arms PH | 1890 | 521 |
Cathie, John Warne | Salmon and Ball PH | 1851-53 | 713 |
Cattell, Henry Joseph | Talbot PH | 1857-59 | 788 |
Cave, John [sic] and West, Albert | Royal Marylebone Theatre | ||
[? Joseph] | [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1878-83 | 853 |
Cave, Joseph | Cosmotheca Music Hall | 1857-69 | 180 |
Cave, Joseph | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1873-78 | 853 |
Cave, Joseph Henry Arnold | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1858-68 | 853 |
(Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1867-71 | 545 . . [written as ‘John’ Henry Arnold] and West, Albert | |
. . [New Victoria Palace] | 1878-80 | 545 | |
Cave, Joseph Arnold | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1875-76 | 22 |
Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1883-87 | 264 | |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1887-88 | 702 | |
Cavender, Alexander | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1890 | 852 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Cavendish, Ada | Olympic Theatre 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1872-73 | 549 |
Cayley, Christopher | Peckham Grove PH | 1854-57 | 565 |
Cecil, Arthur and Clayton, John | Belgravia Theatre / Court Theatre | 1881-87 | 181 |
Chadwick, Richard | Kilburn Palace | 1908-[?16] | 415 |
Chamberlain, George | Sportsman PH | 1854-57 | 755 |
Chamberlain, George | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1867-68 | 837 |
Chamberlain, Robert | Nag’s Head PH (Holborn) | 1854-56 | 509 |
Chamberlain, William Michael | Sportsman PH | 1852-54 | 755 |
Chamberlain(e), George Thomas | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1945-[?] | 702 |
The ‘Old Vic’ | 1950 | 545 | |
Chamberlyn, Adolph Henri | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1896-98 | 725 |
Chambers, Hubert Sillitoe | `Surrey Theatre | 1921-23 | 778 |
Champion, John | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1854-57 | 773 |
Chantrey, William Herbert | Coronet Theatre | 1913, 1916-17 | 178 |
Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1927 | 266 | |
Dominion Theatre | 1932-33 | 219 | |
Chaplin, Zachariah | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1898-99 | 757 |
Chapman, Edward, Jnr | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1880-81 | 284 |
Chapman, Edward George | King’s Arms PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1860-62 | 422 |
Chapman, Emma Alice, Squier [sic], Sarah Ann and Herman, Henry Edward | Trocadero Music Hall | 1888-91 | 819 |
Chapman, Ferdinand Robert | Prince Alfred PH | 1886-90 | 595 |
Chapman, George | Baring MH | 1875-79 | 48 |
Chapman, John | Denison Arms PH | 1859-61 | 212 |
Chapman, Joseph | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1858-59 | 86 |
Chapman, Thomas | Albion PH (Newington) | 1863-64 | 13 |
Chappell, James | `Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) [Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 189o-98 | 624 |
Charlot, Andre | Comedy Theatre [sub-lessee] | 1916, [during 1930s] | 170 |
Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1917-31 | 607 | |
Vaudeville Theatre | 1935-37 | 830 | |
Charlton, James | Sun Music Hall | 1890 | 771 |
[? James Charlton Humphreys see below] [Nov. 1890, licence refused] | |||
Charlton, Thomas | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1890 | 345 [Nov. 1890 licence refused as no repairs done] |
Charman, William | New Royal Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1870-72. 1873-74 | 377 . . |
. . and McCollum, Thomas | New Royal Amphitheatre | 1867-70 | 377 |
Charrington, John Douglas | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Millwall) | 1882-86 | 398 |
Chaston, E.A. – with George Forbes and H. Kelly trade assignees of Weston, Edward [bankrupt] | Bedford MH | 1868-70 | 58 |
Chatterton, Frederick Balsir | St. James’s Theatre | 1859-60 | 705 [? Balsin] |
Royal Adelphi Theatre | 1874-78 | 6 | |
Princess’s Theatre (2nd building) | 1874-76 | 616 | |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1881-83 | 702 | |
Cheeper, Maurice | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1934-35 | 330 |
Cheese, Arthur | Albion Hall | 1892-94 | 11 |
Chegwidden, William John | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1949-50 | 330 |
Cherry., John | Duke of Richmond PH | 1878-79 | 233 |
Chilcott, Stanley, Warden, Harry and [provisional licence] | Kilburn Empire | 1906-08 | 414 |
Child, William Clark | Queen’s Arms PH (Paddington) | 1848-51 | 630 |
Chip, Horatio | Hope PH (St. Pancras) | 1864-74 | 386 |
Chitterbuck, John | John Bull PH | 1881-82 | 405 |
Chown, John James | Green Man PH (St. George in the East) | 1855-58 | 343 |
Chown, Edmund Francis | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1862-74 | 84 |
Chown, Fanny and Hemingway, Kate | Bank of Friendship PH | 1881-82 | 47 |
Chrisfield, Charles | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1870-74 | 203 |
Chudleigh, Arthur and Wood, Matilda Caroline [?] | Royal Court Theatre | 1890-93 | |
Chudleigh, Arthur | . . | 1893-1902 | 679 |
Comedy Theatre | 1905-21 | 170 | |
Church, Alfred | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1893-94 | 298 |
Church, George | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1854-57, 1859-73 | 86 |
Church, John | Red Lion PH (Greenwich) | 1884-86 | 647 |
Chutter, George | Eagle Tavern MH [Royal Eagle MH] | 1887 | 248 [licence refused] |
Clamp, Arthur John | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1896-98 | 695 |
Clamp, Emma Jane | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1895-96 | 695 |
Clamp, Frank Neville | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1893-95 | 695 |
Clamp, George | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1872-93 | 695 |
Clapham, John | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1867-68 | 869 |
Clare, Edmund | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1891-92 | 781 |
Claridge, Lewis Henry | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1871-72 | 92 |
Clark, Charles | Printer’s Arms PH | 1855-57 | 618 |
Clark, Cumberland, Green, Frederick and Doig, Jack | Collins’ Music Hall | 1933-34 | 168 |
Clark, Frederick William | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1876-77 | 203 |
Clark, George | Britannia PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1872-74 | 101 |
Clark, Thomas George | Grecian Theatre | 1879-82 | 336 |
Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1885 | 853 | |
Clark, William | White Lion PH [Metropolitan Music Hall] | 1854-58 | 493 |
Clark, William Alfred | Red Deer PH | 1865-66 | 645 |
Clark, William Walter | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1875-82 | 508 |
Clarke, Charles | Eight Bells PH | 1852-53 | 262 |
Clarke, Clara Sawyer | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1890 | 14 [licence retained] |
Clarke, Charles | Rose PH | 1854-58 | 664 |
Clarke, Charles | Gipsy Queen PH | 1878-84 | 310 |
Clarke, Edward | Ennismore Arms PH | 1851-53 | 269 |
Clarke, Elizabeth Emma | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1885-88 | 397 |
Clarke, Frederick Henry | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1872-74 | 392 |
Clarke, George | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1860-65, 1868-72 | 325 |
Clarke, John Sleeper | (Royal) Charing Cross Theatre [later Folly / Toole’s Theatre] | 1872-73 | 814 |
Haymarket, Theatre Royal | 1878-79 | 371 | |
(Royal) Strand Theatre | 1885-89 | 766 | |
Clarke, Martha | City of Rome PH | 1860-62 | 158 |
Clarke, Thomas | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1880-81 | 411 |
Clarke, William | St. James’s Theatre | 1877 | 705 |
Clarke, William Thomas | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1881-82 | 411 |
Claus, Henry and Cleaver, William | Prince Regent PH (St. George in the East) | 1885-87 | 610 |
Clavering, Albert | Broadway Th. | 1923 | 109 |
Clavering, J. | Kilburn [Picture] Palace | 1916-[?] | 415 |
Clavering, Joseph Charles | Camden Theatre / Camden Hippodrome | 1912-28 | 127 |
Shakespeare Theatre and Opera House (Battersea) | 1917-23 | 727 | |
Clayson, James | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1875-77 | 781 |
Clayton, Edward | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1864-66 | 228 |
Clayton, John and Cecil, Arthur | Belgravia Theatre / Court Theatre | 1881-87 | 181 |
Clayton, Robert | Ship PH (Westminster) | 1854-55 | 735 |
Cleaver, William and Claus, Henry | Prince Regent PH (St. George in the East)) | 1885-87 | 610 |
Clegg, Thomas | Gospel Oak PH | 1864-65 | 327 |
Clegg, Thomas | Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1876-80 | 381 |
Clemens, William Reginald | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1938-40 | 477 |
Clement, George Spencer | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1869-70 | . . |
. . and Hasleden, John | . . | 1867-69 | 585 |
Clements, George | Red Lion and Punch Bowl PH | 1859-62 | |
Clements, Matilda | . . | 1862 licence refused | 652 |
Clewley, James | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1868-73 | 15 |
Clewley, James and Keymer, Robert Samuel | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1867-68 | 15 |
Clifford, Thomas | White Hart PH (Chelsea) | 1875-78 | 865 |
Clifton, Ernest | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1870-72 | 699 |
Queen’s Theatre (Long Acre) | 1870-73 | 623 | |
Clinton, Edward | Bee Hive PH (Deptford) | 1854-55 | 61 |
Clipson, James Yeoman | Railway Hotel & PH (Putney) | 1869-78 | 637 |
Clore, Charles | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1932-34 | 607 |
Clowting, James Henry | Albion PH (St. Pancras) | 1862-67 | 16 |
Clozenberg, Joseph | Shakespeare Theatre and Opera House (Battersea) | 1916-17 | 727 |
Clubb, Henry Thomas | Somerset Arms PH | 1855-62 | 750 [1862, licence refused owing to sale of spirits] |
Cobb, William | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1884-91 | 323 |
Cobb, William Sims | Railway PH (Islington) | 1878-90 | 638 |
Cober, Hyman and Barnett, Robert Isaac | Bow Palace | 1921-22 | 92 |
Cochran, C[harles] B[lake] | London Opera House / National Th. of England [Stoll Theatre] | 1914 | 764 |
Comedy Theatre [sub-lessee] | 1916 | 170 | |
Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1918-24 | 299 | |
Aldwych Theatre | 1919-22 | 17 | |
Palace Theatre | 1912-46 | 554 | |
St. Martin’s Theatre | 1919-20 | 700 | |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1919-22 | 612 | |
Cockerell, Henry | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1857-73 | 783 |
Cockerton, Christopher | City of London Theatre | 1844-48 | 156 |
Coe, George | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1860-63 | 847 |
Coe, John | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1877-78 | 356 |
Coe, John Charles | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1899-1910 | 363 |
Cohen, Arthur Israel | Camberwell Empire | 1920-26 | 123 |
Cohen, Isaac | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1894-1905 | 560 |
Cohen, Isaac | Crown Theatre [Peckham Hippodrome / Gaumont Cinema] | 1899-1901 | 563 |
Cohen, Moses | King’s Hall [Phoenix Temperance Hall] | 1902-?03 | 420 |
Colchester, Enrique | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1889-91 | 853 |
Cole, Edward | Alma MH | 1882-91 | 23 |
Cole, Elizabeth | Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall | 1897-99 | 906 |
Cole, Frederick | Mother Shipton PH | 1859-60 | 507 |
Cole, George | Cross Keys Music Hall | 1873-74 | 190 |
Cole, George | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1875-76 | 430 |
Cole, Henry Robert | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1882-85 | 411 |
Cole, John | Brownlow Arms PH (Drury Lane) | 1852-53 | 115 |
Cole, William | Hope PH (Blackmore St., Clare Market) | 1860 [refused licence] | 385 |
Cole, William | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1868-69 | 92 |
Coleman, Charles | Jolly Anglers PH (Finsbury) | 1875-88 | 407 |
Coleman, John | Queen’s Theatre (Long Acre) | 1876-77 | 623 |
Coleman, Stephen Samuel | Royal Aquarium Theatre [later Imperial Theatre] | 1876-77 | 396 |
Coles, Thomas | Windsor Castle PH (Finsbury) | 1861-62 | 892 [1862, licence refused as Coles reported dead] |
Collard, Ernest | Amersham Hall (Deptford) | 1888-89 | 26 |
Collard, Henry | Hop Pole PH | 1854-55 | 383 |
Collard, John | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1867-68 | 878 |
Colley, John Frederick | Balham Hippodrome | 1939 | 46 |
Colling, Robert Warrington | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1854-57 | 203 |
Collingwood, Francis | Mitford Castle PH | 1896-97 | 497 |
Collins, James | Spread Eagle PH | 1883-85 | 756 |
Collins, John | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1877-80 | 397 |
Collins, John Constantine | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1857-58 | 86 |
Collins, John Henry | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1863-66 | 448 |
Collins, Joseph | Sir John Cass PH | 1855-56 | 743 |
Collins, Nicholas and Harris, John | Red Lion and Spread Eagle PH | 1860-63 | 653 |
Collins?, Robert | see _ “Collons”, below | ||
Collins, Sam [Samuel Vagg] | Marylebone Music Hall | 1858-61 | 491 |
Collins’ Music Hall | 1863-65 | 168 | |
Collins, William Thomas | Montpelier Palace / Assembly Rooms | 1915-19 | 501 |
Collinson, John | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1851-57 | 585 |
Collis, Richard | Earl of Ellesmere PH | 1887-90 | 254 |
Collis, Thomas | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1849-54 | 78 |
Collons [sic], Robert | White Horse PH (St. Andrew, Holborn) | 1854-57 | 873 |
Colson, John | Old Crown PH (Upper Holloway) | 1854-56 | 535 |
Coltman, Alfred Henry | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1876-80 | 877 |
Compton, Edward | Opera Comique | 1891-92 | 550 |
Compton, Edward and | Dalston Theatre | 1898-1914 | 208 |
Bode, Milton | Kennington Theatre | 1912-18 | 412 |
Compton-Burnett, Vera and Rudolf Steiner Association Ltd | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) | 1937 (through 1950) | 823 |
Compton Mackenzie, see: Mackenzie | |||
Conover, Mrs. Anna Georgiana Harriet | Olympic Theatre, 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1883-86 | 549 |
Conquest, Benjamin Oliver | Garrick Theatre [?1831] (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 1st building | 1843-46 | 300 |
Grecian Theatre | 1851-79 | 336 | |
Conquest, Frederick Oliver | Surrey Theatre | 1901-03 | 778 |
Conquest, George and Meritt, Paul | Surrey Theatre | 1881-85 | 778 |
Conquest, George, Jnr and Leonard, Herbert | Terriss’ Theatre [Rotherhithe Hippodrome] | 1900-01 | 674 |
Conquest, George Augustus | Surrey Theatre | 1886-1901 | 778 |
Conquest, George Oliver | Surrey Theatre | 1885-86 | 778 |
Britannia Theatre | 1910-11 | 105 | |
Conquest, William | Barnsbury Hall | 1880-85 | 50 |
Conquest, William Henry | Barnsbury Hall | 1864-71 | 50 |
Barnsbury Hall | 1872-80 | 50 | |
Cons, Emma | Royal Victoria Hall and Coffee Tavern [Secretary, Coffee Music Halls Co. Ltd.] [‘Old Vic’] | 1880-1913 | 545 |
Conway, Thomas | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1867-69 | 162 |
Cook, Annie | Brown Bear PH (Knightsbridge) | 1876-77 | 112 |
Cook, Eleanor | Crown & Anchor PH (Bethnal Green) | 1856-57 | 202 |
Cook [? Crook], Henry John | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1887-90 | 228 |
Cook, John | Star and Garter PH (Leicester Square) | 1859-62 | 762 |
Cook, Richard | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1856-65 | 898 |
Cook, Richard | Bee Hive PH (Christian St., Stepney) | 1867-68 | 59 |
Cook, Thomas Aynsley | Jack Straw’s Castle PH | 1879-80 | 402 |
Cooke, Cubitt | City of Gloucester PH | 1884-85 | 154 |
Cooke, Edward | Three Neats’ Tongues PH | 1858-60 | 811 |
Cooke, Herbert Stanley | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1910-11 | 765 |
Cooke, William | Batty’s Amphitheatre [Astley’s] | 1853-60 | 38 |
Cooper, Charles | Cremorne Gardens | 1850-52 | 185 |
Adelaide Gallery, Exhibition Rooms / Royal Adelaide Theatre | 1852-57 | 5 | |
Cooper, Frederick Fox | City of London Theatre | 1844 | 156 |
(New) Strand Theatre | 1847-48 | 766 | |
Cooper, George | Ship and Blue Coat Boy PH | 1882-84 | 736 |
Cooper, Gladys, see: Pearson, Gladys Constance, Lady | |||
Cooper, James | Trafalgar Beer House (City Road) | 1859-64 | 815 |
Cooper, Louis | Whitehall Theatre | 1948-50 | 884 |
Cooper, Mrs. Louis | Whitehall Theatre | 1950-[?] | 884 |
Cooper, William | Red Lion and Spread Eagle PH | 1868 | 653 |
Cooper, William | Winter Garden Theatre | 1928-45 | 896 |
Cooper, William | Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1921-22 | 296 |
Dawe, Thomas Francis and | Adelphi Theatre | 1921-23 | 6 |
Apollo Theatre | 1921-23 | 33 | |
Cooper, William and Evett, Robert | Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1922-24 | 296 |
Cooper, William | Adelphi Theatre | 1923-24 | 6 |
Mann, Charlton and | Apollo Theatre | 1923-24 | 33 |
Cooper, William and | Adelphi Theatre | 1924-26 | 6 |
Fry, Horace | Apollo Theatre | 1924-26 | 33 |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1924-26 | 296 | |
Cooper, William Henry | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1864-75 | 431 |
Coote, Alfred | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1878-79 | 431 |
Red Deer PH | 1878-79 | 645 | |
Copeland, William Robert | Strand Theatre / Punch’s Playhouse and Marionette Theatre | 1850-52 | 766 |
Copelin, James | King’s Arms PH (Kensington) | 1872-75 | 428 |
King’s Arms PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1873-75 | 422 | |
Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1878-80 | 411 | |
Copeman, Job | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1855-62 | 84 |
Copeman, Robert Martin | Great Eastern PH | 1866-75 | 335 |
Coppen, Sarah | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1863-65 | 837 |
Copping, Alfred | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1864-65 | 234 |
Corazza, Giacomo and Luigi | The Arches [Gatti’s, Player’s Theatre, etc.] | 1879-1904 | 587 |
Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1879-1911 | 303 | |
Corazza, Rosa and Gatti, Maria | Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1878-79 | 303 |
Corby, Thomas, Jnr | Swan PH (Hungerford Market) | 1858-62 | 785 |
Corbyn, Wardle | Park Theatre Parravincini, Stefano Arroni and [Regents Park Th., Alexandra Th., etc.] | 1875-76 | 557 |
Cordingley, Charles | Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1892 | 477 |
Corrick, Alfred E, | Canterbury Music Hall | 1928-29 | 129 |
Corry, Henry Charles | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1881-82 | 601 |
Corti, Enrico; Boracchi, Ercole and | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1885 | 375 |
Cossey, Francis William A. | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1878-84 | 63 |
Cottier, Charles Edward | Criterion Theatre | 1917-23 | 186 |
Cotton, Charles | Philharmonic Rooms (St. Marylebone) | 1854-55 | 574 |
Cotton, F.K., Cannon, Charles, Price, W.C., and Swatton, H.T. | Foresters Hall (Finsbury) | 1872-76 | 282 |
Couchman, Thomas | Windsor Castle PH (? Vauxhall Bridge Rd. Howard also gives “St. George, Hanover Sq.”) | 1848-61 | 894 |
Courtneidge, Robert | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1909-17 | 725 |
Cousins, Jame [sic] | Hope Music Hall | 1880-83 | 384 |
Cousins, John James | Hope Music Hall | 1888-90 | 384 |
Coveney, John | (Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1903-06 | 677 |
Coveney, Joseph | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1876-77 | 838 |
Cowderoy, James | Albion PH (Hammersmith) | 1853-55 | 12 |
Cowen, Laurence | Fortune Theatre | 1924-27, 1932-33 | 285 |
Cowen, Lawrence | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1909-10, 1911 | 560 |
Cowlrick, Walter William | Camel PH | 1883-84 | 128 |
Cox, Edward Horace | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1882-83 | 431 |
Cox, George | Island Queen PH | 1867-70 | 399 |
Cox, George | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1878-91 | 784 |
Cox, James | Albion Hall | 1869-70 | 11 |
Cox, John William Frederick | Shakespeare PH | 1873-75 | 726 |
Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1877-80 | 388 | |
Cox, Thomas Harford | Prince George PH | 1856-62 | 598 |
Coxen, George | Queen’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1873-76 | 631 |
Crabbe, John | Jew’s Harp PH | 1854-55 | 404 |
Cracknell, Thomas | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1865-67 | 102 |
Cragg, Richard Riley | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1851-54 | 690 |
Crago, Samuel | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1864-65 | 869 |
Crane, Charles | Assembly House PH | 1852-53 | 37 |
Crane, James Frederick Charles | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1866-69 | 773 |
Crane, Thomas | King’s Arms PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1862-69 | 422 |
Crauford, Alfred Lane | Britannia Theatre | 1899, 1911 | 105 |
and Samuel, William | Britannia Theatre | 1899-1904 | 105 |
Craven, John Peter | Alma MH | 1860-67 | 23 |
Crawley, Alfred James | Ship and Star PH | 1855-56 | 738 |
Creagh, James | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1879-80 | 431 |
Crease, Henry | Great Eastern PH | 1876-78 | 335 |
Creasey, Charles Alfred | Hope Music Hall | 1890-91 | 384 |
Creech, Joseph | Assembly House PH | 1857-58 | 37 |
Creighton, William | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1859-67 | 15 |
White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1869-80 | 878 | |
Cremer, Brandon | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1940 | 477 |
Creswick, William and Shepherd, Richard | Surrey Theatre | 1850-62, 1866-69 | 778 |
Crick, William | St. John’s Wood PH | 1872-78 | 707 |
Cripps, Mary Ann | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1873-74 | 445 |
Crisp, Edmund Albert | Camden Theatre [Camden Hippodrome] | 1940-45 | 127 |
Dominion Theatre | 1940-48 | 219 | |
Crispin, Augusta Maria and Harris, Maria | Borough MH | 1849-53 | 90 |
Critchfield, Rafaelle | Westminster Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1887-90 | 855 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Critchfield, William Marcus | Westminster Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1885-87 | 855 |
Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1887-90 | 680 | |
Croft, David | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1856-59 | 526 |
Croke, Wentworth | Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1909-15 | 477 |
Crook, George Andrew | Crown PH (Shadwell) | 1879-84 | 199 |
Crook [? Cook], Henry John | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1887-90 | 228 |
Cross, Barnet | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1877-80 | 430 |
Cross, Edward | Old Three Colts PH / Three Colts PH (Stratford, Bow) | 1866-70 | 544 & 798 |
Cross, Henry | Island Queen PH | 1878-79 | 399 |
Cross, Thomas Edward | Prince of Wales PH (Prince of Wales Road, St.Pancras) | 1874-76 | 605 |
Crossley, Robert | Railway Hotel & PH (Putney) | 1882-84 | 637 |
Crouch, Arthur Nelson | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1896-98 | 508 |
Crouch, Harry | King’s Cross Theatre | 1874-?79 | 434 |
Crouch, William | Golden Lion PH | 1852-53 | 324 |
Croucher, Robert | Victoria PH (Hackney Wick) | 1874-79 | 836 |
Croueste, Edwin | Foresters Hall (Edgware Road) | 1871 [licence refused] | 281 |
Crow, William Gordon | Bee Hive PH (Deptford) | 1855-58 | 61 |
Crowder, Charles Spencer | Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 2nd building | 1868-69 | 300 |
Crowder’s M.H. (Greenwich) [Rose & Crown PH rebuilt] | 1871-78 | 346 | |
Lusby’s Music Hall / Paragon Music Hall | 1883-87 | 494 . . | |
. . and Payne, George Adney | Lusby’s Music Hall [Eagle PH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1878-83 | 494 |
Crowdy, James | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1896 | 616 |
Crump, Bertie Frederic Coleman | Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1915-16 | 477 |
Cruwys, Eliza | Bell PH and London & Birmingham Railway Tavern | 1851-52 | 63 |
Cruwys, John | Bell Tavern (Kilburn Wells) | 1850-51 | 63 |
Cubbon, Thomas Christian | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1876-90 | 345 |
Cults, John | Globe and Pigeons PH [Peabody Arms PH] | 1856-61 | 561 |
Culver, Arthur | White Lion PH (Woolwich) | 1874-77 | 875 |
Cuming, John | Eton PH | 1856-66 | 272 |
Cumprecht, Georg Ludwig | Jolly Sailor PH (Radcliffe Highway) | 1881-87 | 410 [1881 licence refused] |
Cunnington, George | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1866-69 | 719 |
Curel, John Alexander | Royal Oak PH (Hackney Fields) | 1859-71 | 689 |
Curline, Henry Thomas | Builders Arms PH (Isle of Dogs, Poplar) | 1865-87 | 118 |
Curling, James Bunce | St. James’s Theatre | 1854-55 | 705 |
Curling, Thomas Russell | Blue Anchor PH (Westminster) | 1853-54 | 87 |
Currans, James Wylie | Royal Connaught Theatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1879 | 377 |
Curtice, Edward | Westminster Temperance Hall | 1876-82 | 856 |
Curtis, John | Bell & Anchor PH | ? 1852 | 66 |
Curtis, Clarence Thomas | Ship PH (Woolwich) | 1885-87 | 733 |
Curtis, George | Cock PH | 1879-81 | 166 |
Glass House PH | 1879-81 | 311 | |
Red Boot Coffee Tavern | 1879-81 | 642 | |
Temple Arms Coffee Tavern | 1879-81 | 795 | |
Morton Arms PH | 1880-81 | 506 | |
Wallace Arms PH | 1880-81 | 844 | |
Curtis, W.G. | St. Martin’s Theatre | 1942-43 | 709 |
Curzey, Joseph Thomas | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1877-81 | 908 |
Curzey, Maria Mary | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1881-84 | 908 |
Curzon, Frank | (Royal) Strand Theatre | 1900-04 | 766 |
Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1900-15 | 607 | |
Avenue Theatre / The Playhouse | 1901-05, 1915-27 | 588 | |
Comedy Theatre [sub-lessee] | 1902-? | 170 | |
Camden Theatre | 1903-04 | 127 | |
Wyndham’s Theatre | 1903-27 | 905 | |
Cusson, Thomas | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1872-76 | 891 |
Cutton, Charles Thomas | Macclesfield Arms PH | 1867-72 | 479 |
Dabs, Frederick | Mitford Castle PH | 1898-99 | 497 |
Dagnall, Ells | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1907-08 | 725 |
Dale, Maurice Harden | Duke of Bridgewater PH | 1859-62 | 225 |
Dalton, John | Crown PH (Clerkenwell) | 1859-60 | 195 |
Daly, Augustin | Daly’s Theatre | 1893-99 | 209 |
Dana, Henry and Cartwright, Charles | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1895-96 | 243 |
Dancer, John Malsbury | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1884-85 | 783 |
Daniel, Edward | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1870-72 | 98 |
Dannit, James Isaac | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1857-63 | |
[Executor to above (Windett, William)] | . . | 1863 | 690 |
Dansie, Robert | Eight Bells PH | 1857-58 | 262 |
Darling, Charles | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Millwall) | 1865-82 | 398 |
Darter, Richard | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1875-77 | 392 |
Davenport, Walter | North Woolwich Gardens [ … and Theatre, Royal Pavilion, etc.] | 1883-85 | 691 |
Davey, Elizabeth | Northampton Arms PH | 1862-63 | 529 |
Davey, George | Macclesfield Arms PH | 1876-78 | 479 |
Davey, Richard Thomas Frederick | Northampton Arms PH | 1860-62 | 529 |
Davidge, Mrs. Frances | Surrey Theatre | 1843-47 | . . |
. . and Bunn, Alfred | . . | 1847-48 | 778 |
Davidson, William | (New) Strand Theatre | 1846 | 766 |
Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 1st building] | 1847-49 | 549 | |
Davies, James | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1854-63 | 781 |
Davies, William | Cape of Good Hope PH | 1863-86 | 131 . . |
. . Kelday, Arthur and | Pied Bull PH | 1870-71 | 582 |
Davis, Charles | White Lion PH [Metropolitan Music Hall] | 1858-62 | 493 |
Davis, Charles | Manchester Arms PH | 1859-62 | 482 |
Davis, George | Three Mariners Hotel | 1867-72 | 810 |
Davis, George Valentine | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1855-58 | 173 |
Davis, George Walter | Hop Pole PH | 1865-69 | 383 |
Davis, Henry | Three Wheatsheaves PH | 1864-66 | 812 |
Davis, Henry Edward | Deacon’s Music Hall | 1885-91 | 211 |
Davis, James | Havering atte Bower PH | 1854-58 | 370 |
Davis, James Hollock | Pegasus PH | 1856-72 | 566 |
Davis, John | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1868-71 | 837 |
Davis, Marianne | Duchess Theatre | 1946- after 50 | 221 |
Duke of York’s Theatre | 1946- after 50 | 243 | |
Saville Theatre | 1950-[?] | 715 | |
Davis, Tom Buffen | Century Th. / Adelphi Th. | 1901-08 | 6 |
Apollo Theatre | 1904-20 | 33 | |
Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1906-11 | 699 | |
Davis, William | Apollo MH | 1854-61 | 32 |
Davis, William | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1861-66 | 388 |
Davis, William | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1856-59 | 298 |
Davis, William | Cooper’s Arms PH (Hoxton) | 1865-68 | 175 |
Davis, William | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1874-75 | 325 |
Davis, William Henry | Salmon and Compasses PH | 1861-62 | 714 |
Davison, Mary Ann | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1866-70 | 63 |
Dawe, Thomas Francis and | Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1921-22 | 296 |
Cooper, William | Adelphi Theatre | 1921-23 | 6 |
Apollo Theatre | 1921-23 | 33 | |
Dawkins, Edwin | Freemason’s PH (Holborn) | 1878-86 | 292 |
Dawson, Edward | Holland Arms PH (Brixton Hill) | 1873-74 | 379 |
Dawson, John | Helvetia Music Hall | 1877-80 | 372 |
Dawson, John Joseph | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1875-76 | 323 |
Dawson, Richard | Swan PH (Hungerford Market) | 1854-58 | 785 |
Dawson, T.J.; Cannon, Charles; Price, W.C. and Swatton, H.T. | Foresters Hall (Finsbury) | 1877-78 | 282 |
Dawson, T.J.; Arnold, Ebenezer; Price, W.C. and Swatton, H.T. | … | 1878-86 | . . |
Dawson, William Thomas | Lord Southampton PH | 1890 | 475 [Nov.1890, licence refused] |
Day, Francis and Sawyer, Joseph | Hoxton Hall | 1865-66 | 393 |
Day, John | St. John’s Wood PH | 1857-72 | 707 |
Dea, James Henry | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1859-64 | 757 |
Deacon, Edmund | Baring MH | 1856-58 | 48 |
Deacon, James | Deacon’s Music Hall | 1861-85 | 211 |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1886-87 | 702 | |
Deacon, Solomon | Baring MH | 1854-56 | 48 |
Alma MH | 1856-60 | 23 | |
Dean, Charles Richard | Larkhall PH | 1854-60 | 449 |
Dean, Randall | John of Jerusalem PH | 1866-70 | 406 |
Dean, Robert | Hope Music Hall | 1875-80 | 384 |
Dear, John | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1880-81 | 878 |
Dearing, Charles | Islington Hippodrome [Collins’ MH] | 1904-10 | 168 |
De Bolla, Baptiste | Mitford Castle PH | 1894-96 | 497 |
Deed, Herbert Alfred | Henry Hengler’s Grand Cirque / National Skating Palace (Argyll St.) | 1898-[?]1902 | 463 |
Deedy, John Christian | King’s Head PH (St. Pancras) | 1858-65 | 436 |
Deekes, Edward | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1879-83 | 678 |
Deekes, Rebecca | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1883-84 | 678 |
Deer, Alfred James | Castle Music Hall | 1884-85 | 136 |
Deer, Alfred William | Balham Empire | 1904-06 | 45 |
de Freece, John | Camberwell Empire | 1905-07 | 123 |
de Havilland, Major General James | Good Duke Humphrey Coffee Tavern (Greenwich) | 1893-1901 | 326 |
de Jong, Frank | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1901-02 | 616 |
Delatoire/Delatorre, Romaine | New Victoria Palace [‘Old Vic’] | 1871-73 | 545 |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1872-73 | 702 | |
De Lavigerie, Alfred Duboys | Holborn Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1877 | 377 |
De Leon, Jack | Embassy Theatre | 1940 | 265 |
Deller, James | Three Wheatsheaves PH | 1859-64 | 812 |
Dempster, William | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1885-86 | 84 |
Denchfield, Thomas | Princess Royal PH | 1856-62 | 615 [1862, no petition, no application, Denchfield reported to have left the house] |
Denford, Henry | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1863-65 | 162 |
Dent, John | North Star PH | 1867-68 | 528 |
Denton, George | Victoria PH (Hackney Wick) | 1879-81 | 836 |
de Pinna, David | Imperial Theatre [formerly (Royal) Aquarium Theatre] | 1886 | 396 |
de Reyes, Consuelo Mary | Everyman Theatre / Everyman Cinema Theatre | 1932-33, 1934-43 | 274 |
Derbyshire, Samuel Patrick | Islington Hippodrome / Collins’ Music Hall | 1912-13 | 168 |
d’Estere, Henry Vassall | Elephant and Castle Theatre | 1888-97, 1898-1904, | |
[and see Norris, Ernest Edward, below] [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1906 | 264 | |
d’Estere, Henry William | Elephant and Castle Theatre [son of above] [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1873-74, 1907-08 | 264 |
Dett, Thomas, Levy, Jose Gerald and | Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1916-19 | 765 |
Devant, David | St. George’s Hall [Maskelyne’s Theatre] | 1911-15 | 703 |
Dewes, Richard Herbert | Winter Garden Theatre | 1945-after 50 | 896 |
Leicester Square Theatre (of Varieties) | 1946-[?] | 453 | |
Dominion Theatre | 1948-after 50 | 219 | |
Dickeson, John | Balham MH / Balham Empire | 1901-04, 1906-07 | 45 |
Dickie, Thomas Samuel | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1897-1911 | 834 |
Dickson, Walter | Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1912-16 | 266 |
Digby-Worsley, Bruce | see _ Worsley | ||
Digges, West | Earl of Effingham Saloon [East London Theatre, etc.] | 1852-53 | 255 |
Dillon, Charles | Lyceum Theatre | 1856-57, 1857-58 | 476 |
Dillon, Samuel | Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1867-71 | 602 |
Dimbleby, Sarah | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1875-77 | 342 |
Dinorben, Marguerite | Alcazar / International Theatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1883-84 | 377 |
Dipple, John Parry | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1895-97 | 895 |
Dipple, Richard Edward | Green Man PH (Plumstead Village) | 1895-99 | 344 |
Dittman [sic], Henry [see Dittmar, below] | White Hart PH (Whitechapel) | 1858-59 | 866 |
Dittmar [sic], Henry [see Dittman, above] | Brown Bear PH (Whitechapel) | 1859-65 | 114 |
Dittmar, Margaret Caroline | Brown Bear PH (Whitechapel) | 1865-66 | 114 |
Dix, William | Eagle PH [Lusby’s MH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1851-55 | 494 |
Dixon, Samuel William | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1940-45 | 330 |
Dobbin, Harry | Railway Hotel & PH (Putney) | 1888 | 637 |
Dobson, Alfred | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1877-78 | 585 |
Dobson, George | Builders Arms PH (Chelsea) | 1855-56 | 117 |
Dodd, Henry, Barton, William and Jay, John | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1854-55 | 673 |
Dodd, William Henry | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1883-91 | 781 |
Dodson, John | Catherine Wheel PH | (prior to) 1850-51 | 142 |
Doig, Alex. Jack, Green, Frederick, and Clark, Cumberland | Collins’ Music Hall | 1933-34 | 168 |
Donaghue, Henry | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1873-75 | 601 |
Donegar, Robert Henry | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1878-79 | 471 |
Donnison, George | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1872-73 | 654 |
Donovan, Denis James | New Southampton Arms PH | 1877-82 | 521 |
Dorling, Florence [Executrix to Samuel Adams] | Trocadero Music Hall | 1893-94 | 819 |
Dott, Thomas | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1915-17 | 299 |
Doughty, John | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1874-76 | 14 |
Douglas, Emma | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1900-02 | 508 |
Douglas, John | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1899 | 508 |
Douglass, John | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1843-47, 1855-56 | 853 |
(New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1848-61, 1864-74 | 740 | |
Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1858-64 | ||
Douglass, John Thomas | . . | 1869-71 | 560 |
(New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1884[?]-88 | 740 | |
Douglass, John [Thomas] | (New) Royal Standard Theatre & Richard [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1874-84 | 740 |
Park Theatre [Regents Park Th., Alexandra Th., etc.] | 1878-81 | 557 | |
Bishopsgate Hall | 1881-90 | 73 | |
Douglass, Richard | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1888-89 | 740 |
Dougherty, Henry | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1874-88 | 757 |
Dovey, James Richard | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1874-79 | 357 |
Dowles, John Thomas | Beckford’s Head PH | 1863-64 | 56 |
Dowsett, Vernon | Tivoli Music Hall | 1894-1903 | 813 |
Dowsing, Isaac Churchyard | Pavilion Gardens [Royal Pavilion / North Woolwich Gardens and Theatre, etc.] 1852-57 | 691 | |
D’Oyly Carte, Helen | Savoy Theatre (1st building) | 1903-04, 1906-11 | 716 |
D’Oyly Carte, Richard | Opera Comique | 1874 | 550 |
Savoy Theatre (1st building) | 1881-1901 | 716 | |
Royal English Opera House [Palace Th.] | 1891-92 | 554 | |
D’Oyly Carte, Rupert | Savoy Theatre (1st & 2nd buildings) | 1915-48 | 716 |
Drake, William | Black Horse & Windmill PH | 1854-59 | 82 |
Draper, John | Globe PH (Hatton Garden, Holborn) | 1854-57 | 313 |
Draper, Joseph Skidmore | Globe PH (Hatton Garden, Holborn) | 1857-59 | 313 |
Drewett, Edgar | Alexandra Hall | 1866-69, 1872-73 | 18 |
Drewry, James | Sportsman PH | 1857-60, 1862-63 | 755 |
Driver, William | Hope PH (Blackmore St., Clare Market) | 1854-55 | 385 |
Dronett, Alfred Charles | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1857-81 | 442 |
Druggan, Henry | Phene Arms PH | 1866-76 | 573 |
Drummond, George | Little Theatre | 1909 | 458 [provisional licence] |
Drury, George | Old King John’s Head PH | 1863-64 | 539 |
Drysdale, David | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1864-66 | 904 |
Dubens, Abraham Adolph | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1946-48, 1949- after 50 | 20 |
Duck, William | Opera Comique | 1886 | 550 |
Duckham, Frederick Eliot | Good Duke Humphrey Coffee Tavern (Greenwich) | 1855 (through 1889) | 326 |
Duddridge, Charles | St. John of Jerusalem PH | 1861-62 | 706 |
Dudley, Benjamin | Macclesfield Arms PH | 1851-54 | 479 |
Dudley, Frederick John and Sherren, John James | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1877-81 | 445 |
Dudley, William | Butcher’s Arms PH | 1856[?]-62 | 122 |
Duffield, Stephen Henry | Magpie Music Hall and PH [Battersea MH and Palace of Varieties] | 1879-81 | 480 |
Commercial PH (Battersea) | 1881-88 | 172 | |
Duffy, Michael | Fox and Cock PH | 1857-58 | 290 |
Duggan, Andrew Charles | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1875-80 | 636 |
Dukes, Ashley | New Mercury Theatre Ltd. and Mercury Theatre | 1941-[?] | 492 |
Dukes, Mrs. Cyvia Myriam [Marie Rambert] | Mercury Theatre | 1934-41 | 492 |
Dumain, Ellen | Sun Music Hall | 1883-84 | 771 |
du Maurier, Gerald | St. James’s Theatre | 1928-29 | 705 |
Dumergue, Anne | St. Martin’s Hall /MH (Long Acre) [Queen’s Theatre] | 1861-67 | 623 |
Dundock, William | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1869-73 | 260 |
Dunford, W., Sharp, John S., and Foreman, John | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1881-88 | 283 |
Dunn, Penniston | Town Hall / and Temple of Varieties [later Hammersmith Palace of Varieties] | 1881-84 | 363 |
Dunn, Richard | Adam & Eve PH (Clerkenwell) | 1860-74 | 3 |
Dunster, James | Duke of Cornwall PH | 1847-51 | 230 |
Dupree, William | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1856-63 | 14 |
Dupuy, Daniel | Bishop Bonner PH | 1898 | 72 |
Durahm [sic], Ellen | Hope Music Hall | 1874-75 | 384 |
Dutchess, Sophia | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1897 | 323 |
Dwelly, William | Rose and Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1853-54 | 667 |
Dyne, Edwin John | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1866-69, 1871-77 | 241 |
Eadie, Dennis | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1919-28 | 699 |
Eager, Henry | White Horse PH (Finsbury) | 1862-63 | 871 |
Eagle, George Barnard | Brown Bear PH (Holborn) | 1854-55 | 113 |
Ealy, John | Eagle PH [Lusby’s MH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1848-51 | 494 |
Earle, Arthur Herbert Greville | Vaudeville Theatre | 1932-34 | 830 |
Easlea, Edgar Spencer | Bromley Arms PH (Bow) | 1874-75 | 110 |
Eaton, Joseph | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1873-77 | 388 |
Eckstein, Harry | Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1922-23 | 674 |
Edbrooke, Edwin | Mitford Castle PH | 1893-94 | 497 |
Edbrooke, James | Montpelier Tavern | 1866-67 | 501 |
Edgar, Edward Fisher | Surrey Theatre | 1871-72 | 778 |
Edgar, Robert | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1861-64 | 740 |
Edgar, Robert | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1863-71 | 702 |
Edgington, Richard | St. Helena Music Hall, Gardens and PH | 1849-55 | 704 |
Ediker, John | Printer’s Arms PH | 1857-60 | 618 |
Edmonds, James | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1873-74 | 430 |
Edmonds, John | Belgrave PH | 1852-55 | 62 |
Edmunds, John | Corunna Music Hall | 1874-78 | 179 |
Edouin, Willie | Novelty Theatre | 1885-86 | 443 |
Edwardes, Ada Rosalind Bennett | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1892-93 | 725 |
Edwardes, George | Gaiety Theatre (The Strand) | 1886-1903 | 295 |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1891-92 | 725 | |
Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1892-93 | 607 | |
Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1897-1908 | 266 | |
Daly’s Theatre | 1899-15 | 209 | |
Royal Adelphi Theatre | 1900-01 | 6 | |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1904-16 | 296 | |
Edwards, Charles | Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 2nd building | 1864-65 | 300 |
Edwards, Charles | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1880-82 | 430 |
Edwards, George | Montpelier Music Hall | 1894-99 | 501 |
Edwards, Herbert Edward | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1895 | 508 |
Edwards, John Frederick | Eight Bells PH | 1861-62 | 262 |
Edwards, Sidney | Hare Music Hall and PH | 1877-89 | 365 [Nov. 1889, application not granted, repairs too costly to complete] |
Edwards, William James | Swiss Cottage PH (Forest Hill) | 1872-87 | 786 |
Egerton, Frank | South London Palace of Varieties | 1897-98 | 751 |
Elgie, Christopher | Brown Bear PH (Knightsbridge) | 1868-76 | 112 |
Elledge, Charles | Alma MH | 1891-95 | 23 |
Elledge, Walter | Alma MH | 1895-97 | 23 |
Ellen, John [petition lodged in this name] | Wheatsheaf PH (St. Marylebone) | 1860 [no notice of transfer, licence refused] | 859 |
Eliot, William Gerald | St. George’s Hall | 1899-(?1902) | 703 |
Elliott, Alfred | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1869-73 | 834 |
Elliott, Celeste | Lyceum Theatre | 1859-60, 1860-61 | 476 |
Elliott, Herbert | Brownlow Arms PH (Drury Lane) | 1858-59 | 115 |
Elliott, John | Exmouth Arms PH | 1864-66 | 275 |
Elliott, John James | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1877-79 | 895 |
Elliott, Robert | Prince’s Hall of Varieties | 1854-60 | 611 |
Elliott, Timothy | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1858-59 | 437 |
Ellis, Anthony | Fulham Theatre [Grand Theatre] | 1925 | 329 |
Ellis, Benjamin Habberton | Duke of Wurtemburg PH | 1851-64 | 238 |
Ellis, James (for Criterion) | Criterion Music Hall (Leicester Square, site of later Empire Theatre) | 1863-64 | 266 |
Ellis, Joshua | Freemason’s PH (Holborn) | 1890-97 | 292 |
. . Secretary, Spiers & Pond Ltd | Criterion Theatre (second building) | 1889-96 | 186 |
Ellis, William | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1883-84 | 753 |
Elphinstone, James Walker and | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1852-56 | 560 |
Neale, Frederick [destroyed by fire 9.2.1856] | |||
Elves, John | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1861-63 | 832 |
Duke of Richmond PH | 1866-72 | 233 | |
Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | 1873-75 | 141 | |
White Horse PH (Bethnal Green) | 1876-77 | 872 | |
Trafalgar PH | 1879-90 | 816 | |
Elves, Joseph | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1875-76 | 877 |
Emanuels, Samuel | Prince’s Hall of Varieties | 1877-85 | 611 |
Emden, William | St. James’s Theatre | 1868-69 | 705 |
Emden, William Samuel and Robson, Frederick Thomas | Olympic Theatre 2nd building | 1857-64 | 549 |
Emerton, Ann | Rose and Crown PH (Greenwich) | 1868-71 | 346 |
Emerton, John Samuel | Rose and Crown PH (Greenwich) | 1866-68 | 346 [later (rebuilt) Crowder’s MH, |
Emery, Florence | (Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1894 | 588 |
Emery, S. A. | Saville House (Leicester Square, (for Saville House) site of later Empire Theatre) | 1843 | 266 [licence requested but refused] |
Emery, Samuel Anderson | Lyceum Theatre | 1844 | 476 |
Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1856-57 | 853 | |
Emmett, Arthur and Wyatt, George | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1885-86 | 753 |
Emms, Charles Lambert | Queen’s Arms PH (Plumstead) | 1885-88 | 627 |
Enderson, Harry | Foresters Hall (Edgware Road) | 1867-69 | 281 |
Engelbach, Edward Coryton | Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1914-16 | 478 |
English, George | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1868-77 | 847 |
English, George Edwin | Sebright MH [Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1892-1904 | 719 |
English, James | Three Cranes PH | 1853-54 | 802 |
Entwhistle, Charles | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1858-59 | 228 |
Approach PH | 1864-68 | 34 | |
Entwisle, William | Royal Assembly Rooms [Duke of Connaught’s Coffee Tavern] | 1881-90 | 229 |
Eplett, Thomas and Gill, George | New Albert Theatre [Garrick Theatre] (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1875-76 | 300 |
Ernest, Henry | Vauxhall Gardens | 1858-59 | 831 |
Esdaile, Alfred | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st /2nd buildings) | 1934-42 | 607 |
Piccadilly Theatre | 1935-36 | 581 | |
London Casino [Prince Edward Theatre] | 1939-42 | 135 | |
Esse, Adolphus Frederick | Sportsman PH | 1869-73 | 755 |
Estall, Edwin Davis | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1883-85 | 76 |
Evans, Francis Kirby | Guy of Warwick PH | 1863-64 | 358 |
Evans, Frederick William | Star Music Hall | 1879-80 | 761 |
Evans, Henry | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1865-67 | 260 |
Evans, Mary White | Prince’s Hall of Varieties | 1876-77 | 611 |
Evans, Thomas Edward | St. George’s Hall | 1872-77 | 703 |
Evans, Treyer Fellice | Prince’s Hall of Varieties | 1874-76 | 611 |
Evans, William | Railway PH (Islington) | 1875-78 | 638 |
Eve, James William Edwards | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1880-85 | 397 |
Everard, Ellen | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1859-60 | 665 |
Everard, John | Westminster Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1861-66 | 855 |
Everard, John | Crown PH (Stepney) | 1866-67 | 195 |
Everard, Richard | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1854-59 | 665 |
Everett, George | Cardinal Wolsey PH | 1864-65 | 132 |
Everett, George | Queen’s Theatre (Long Acre) | 1873-76, 1877-79 | 623 |
Eversden, Elonza | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1878-82 | 408 |
Evett, Robert | Daly’s Theatre | 1920-21 | 209 |
Evett, Robert and Cooper, William | Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1922-24 | 296 |
Ewen, Charles William | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1884-86 | 832 |
Eykyn, William Augustus | Mitford Castle PH | 1879-80 | 497 |
Fagan, James Bernard | Royal Court Theatre | 1921-23 | 679 |
Fair, William Burnham | Winchester Music Hall [Grapes Tavern, Surrey MH, etc.] | 1878-80 | 887 |
Fairchild, George Emberson | Ordnance Arms PH | 1868 | 551 |
Fairlie, Francis Charles | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1874-75, 1876-77 | 316 |
Folies Dramatiques [Novelty Theatre] | 1883 | 443 | |
Fairs, Alfred | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1878-82 | 84 |
Fairweather, Lionel | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1891-93 | 744 |
Falck, Lionel Louis | Little Theatre | 1936-42 | 458 |
Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1936-[?] | 765 | |
Falconer, Edmund | Lyceum Theatre | 1858- 59, 1861-63, 1870-71 | 476 |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1866-67 | 375 | |
Faraday, Philip Michael | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1920-22 | 243 |
Farmer, Benjamin | Old Three Colts PH / Three Colts PH (Stratford, Bow) | 1870-72 | 544 & 798 [1872 licence refused, fined 40s. & costs for Sunday trading] |
Farmer, Charles Henry | Hope Music Hall | 1894-98 | 384 |
Farren, William | (New) Strand Theatre | 1849-50 | 766 |
Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 2nd building] | 1851-53 | 549 | |
Farrar, David | Grafton Theatre (Tottenham Court Road) | 1939-40 | 328 |
Fearn, William Frederick | Prince of Wales PH (Bethnal Green) | 1857-65 | 603 |
Feather, Elizabeth | Ship and Star PH | 1858-61 | 738 |
Feather, Robert James | Ship and Star PH | 1856-58, 1861-67 | 738 |
Fechter, Charles Albert | Lyceum Theatre | 1863- 67 | 476 |
Feethan, William Braithwaite [reported to have absconded] | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1879 | 851 |
Feist, Alfred | Lord Nelson PH (Clare Market) | 1860-71 | 468 |
Fell, Frederick James | Old Swan PH | 1859-62 | 543 |
Fell, Joseph | Royal Holborn Theatre | 1872-73 | 244 |
Feminia, Pedro | Rose and Crown PH (St. George Street, 1891 Tower) [Nov. 1891, licence refused] | 671 | |
Fenning, Zacharia | Prendergast Arms PH | 1877-78 | 590 |
Fenton, Charles Frederick | Corunna Music Hall | 1878-81 | 179 |
Fenton, Frederick and Frampton, Frederick | (Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1862-67 | 545 |
Fenwick, Sarah Ann | Sekforde Arms PH | 1888-91 | 720 [? and see Sarah Ann Reuter, below] |
Ferguson, Edmund | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1894-[?] | 388 [Nov. 1898, licence refused for private gain or trade] |
Ferrar, Joseph | Adam & Eve PH (Clerkenwell) | 1854-55 | 3 |
Castle PH (Shoreditch) | 1862-63 | 138 | |
Ferrar, Joseph Henry | Windmill PH | 1876-83 | 888 |
Ferry, Ebenezer | Duke of Richmond PH | 1872-75 | 233 |
White Horse PH (Bethnal Green) | 1877-84 | 872 | |
Ferry, George | Temperance Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1878-81 | 791 |
Feuillan, Charles Philippe | Bedford PH | 1856-58 | 57 |
Few, Ingle | George and Vulture PH | 1866-67 | 307 |
Fickling, William John | King’s Arms PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1876-?1903 | 422 |
Field, Alfred | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1868-74 | 323 |
Field, John | Eagle and Child Coffee Tavern | 1882-83 | 249 |
Field, William Riderwood | _(Royal) Charing Cross Theatre Bradwell, Edmund William and [later Folly / Toole’s Theatre] | 1869-72 | 814 |
Field, William Riderwood | (Royal) Charing Cross Theatre | 1876 | 814 |
Field, William Ridewood and Joyce, Walter | Royal Holborn Theatre | 1874 | 244 |
Fielder, Frederick | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1890 | 431 |
Finch, James | Waterloo Hero PH | 1877-80 | 846 |
Finch, Thomas Lawrence | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1876-79 | 102 |
Finch, William | Old Fountain PH | 1878-79 | 538 |
Fish, George | Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1855-58 | 200 |
Fishburn Joseph | Henry Hengler’s Grand Cirque / National Skating Palace (Argyll St.) | 1903-10 | 463 |
Fisher, George | Baring MH | 1874-75 | 48 |
Fisher, Kate Helena | Gloucester PH | 1873-78 | 319 |
Fisher, William | King and Queen PH (St. Marylebone) | 1864-66 | 417 |
Fisher, William | Gloucester PH | 1869-73 | 319 |
Fisk, Stephen | St. James’s Theatre | 1874-75 | 705 |
Fitch, Robert James [sic] | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1879-80 | 78 |
Fitch, Robert Thomas | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1878-79, 1880-85 | 78 |
Flandell, Thomas | Kenton Arms PH (Hackney) | 1865-66 | 413 |
Fleming, George | King’s Cross Theatre | 1874 | 434 |
Fletcher, James | George and Dragon PH | 1865-68 | 306 [1868, licence refused owing to sale of exciseable liquors] |
Flint, Henry | Greyhound PH (Bethnal Green) | 1856-66 | 351 |
Flint, James | Princess Royal PH | 1854-56 | 615 |
Flower, John | Waterloo Hero PH | 1882-83 | 846 |
Flower, Henry | Queen’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1878-87 | 631 |
Foord, George | Devonshire Arms PH | 1881-84 | 214 |
Forbes, George – with E.A. Chaston and H. Kelly trade assignees of Weston, Edward [bankrupt] | Bedford MH | 1868-70 | 58 |
Forbes, Robert | Camden Arms PH | 1865-66 | 126 |
Forbes Robertson, Norman | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1891 | 316 |
Ford, Percy | Camberwell Empire | 1908-11 | 123 |
Foreman, John, Hood, John S., and Roe, W. | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1869-72 | 283 |
Foreman, John, Hood, John S., and Perkins, John | . . | 1873-77 | . . |
Foreman, John and Perkins, John | . . | 1872-73, 1877-79 | . . |
Foreman, John; Perkins, John and Sharp, John S. | . . | 1879-81 | . . |
Foreman, John; Sharp, John S.; and Dunford, William | 1881-88 | . . | |
Forster, Charles | Old King John’s Head PH | 1860-61 | 539 |
Fort, Robert | Temperance Hall / Eastern Alhambra MH (Shoreditch) | 1864-70 | 793 |
Fort, Robert | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1871-79 | 284 |
Foster, Benjamin | Jerusalem PH | 1851-63 | 403 |
Foster, Frederick Valentine | Duchess of Kent PH | 1887-90 | 223 |
Foster, Jonathan | Bishop Bonner PH | 1874-75 | 72 |
Foster, Mrs. Richard (Halton, Marie) | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1893 | 725 |
Foster, Oliver | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1861-62 | 448 |
Foster, Thomas | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1879-84 | 852 |
Foster, Thomas | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1884-85 | 753 |
Fountain, William | Montpelier Tavern | 1859-64 | 501 |
Fournier, Albert Edward | Saville Theatre | 1931-46 | 715 |
Fowler, Alfred Henry | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1861-65 | 654 |
Fowler, Bartholomew Francis | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1855-64 | 102 |
Fowler, Francis | Opera Comique | 1892-[?1900] | 550 |
Fowler, Thomas | Duke of York PH (St. Pancras)` | 1858-59 | 239 |
Fowler, William | Vauxhall Gardens | 1849-58 | 831 |
Fowler, William | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1878-81 | 356 |
Fox, Frederick | King’s Head PH (St. Marylebone) | 1865-67 | 441 |
Fox, Richard and King, Henry John | Laurel Tree PH | 1860-62 | 450 |
Frampton, Frederick | Saville House (Leicester Square, (for Saville House) site of later Empire Theatre) | 1856-57 | 266 |
Frampton, Frederick | Nell Gwynne PH | 1855-57 | 513 |
Frampton’s Music Hall [Lord Nelson New MH / Euston MH, etc.] | 1858-62 | 470 | |
Frampton, Frederick and Fenton, Frederick | (Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1862-67 | 545 |
Francis, Nelson | Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1905-12 | 267 |
Francis, Thomas Watson | Talbot PH | 1860-65 | 788 |
Francis, William | Adam & Eve PH (Holborn) | 1860-61 | 2 |
Franklin, Ernest | Hope Music Hall | 1892-93 | 384 |
Franklin, Thomas | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1853-54 | 898 |
Franklin, Thomas | Cherry Tree PH (Shoreditch) | 1871-72 | 147 |
Fraser, James | Globe PH (Hatton Garden, Holborn) | 1860-62 | 313 |
Frebout, Francis | Angel and Crown PH (Shoreditch) | 1867-71 | 31 |
Fredericks, George [management, no licensing records at LCC] | Fredericks’ Royal Palace of Varieties [Albion Saloon / Wilton’s Music Hall / Mahogany Bar, etc.] | 1874-77 | 886 |
Fredericks, George | Bedford MH | 1877-85 | 58 |
Freeborn, George | Stanhope Arms PH | 150-64, 1868-82 | 760 |
Freeborn, Richard | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1874-75 | 264 |
Freeland, George | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1874-78 | 753 |
Freeman, Henry A. and Wilmot, Charles | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1890-92 [Nov. 1892, LCC licence refused] | |
Freeman, Henry A. | . . | 1896-1911 | 702 |
Freeman, John Walter | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1854-59 | 445 [1859, licence refused] |
Freeman, William | Denison Arms PH | 1854-59 | 212 |
Frewer, William Thomas | New Victoria Palace [‘Old Vic’] | 1874-75 | 545 |
Friederichs, Christian Diederich | Prince Regent PH (St. George in the East)) | 1862-65 | 610 |
Friswell, Thomas | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1861-62 | 773 |
Fritche, George Edward | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1880-83 | 636 |
Frohman, Charles | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1898-1915 | 243 |
Aldwych Theatre | 1905-08 | 17 | |
Comedy Theatre [sub-lessee] | 1906-11 | 170 | |
Hicks Theatre / Globe Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave.) [Gielgud Th.] | 1906-13 | 317 | |
Frood, Gore William | Camel PH | 1879-80 | 128 |
Frost, John | Mansfield PH | 1862-63 | 486 |
Fry, Horace and | Adelphi Theatre | 1924-26 | 6 |
Cooper, William | Apollo Theatre | 1924-26 | 33 |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1924-26 | 296 | |
Fryer, William | Halifax Arms PH | 1859-62 | 362 |
Fuld, Julius | Canterbury Th. of Varieties | 1914-19 | 129 |
Fulford, Matthew Henry | Bedford PH | 1858-59 | 57 |
Fullcher, Frederick Henry | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1890 | 408 |
Fulloon, Henry Charles | Jack Straw’s Castle PH | 1875-76 | 402 |
Furley, Edmund | Running Horse PH | 1860-63 | 700 |
Futroye, Roy George | Camberwell Palace | 1943 | 124 |
Gabb, Henry | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1865-77 | 673 |
Gadd, Abraham | Lamb PH (Hackney Wick) | 1882-83 | 447 [1863, licence refused] |
Gaddener (or Gardener), Charles | Theatre Royal, Astley’s | 1869 | 38 |
Gaderer, Charles | Lyceum Theatre | 1847 | 476 |
Gadsby, Isaac | Hare and Hounds PH (St.Pancras) | 1857-62 | 366 |
Gage, Catherine Major | Queen Eleanor PH | 1891 | 620 |
Gage, Caroline/Catherine Major and Gage, William Major | Queen Eleanor PH | 1888-91 | 620 |
Gage, Thomas John | Queen Eleanor PH | 1885-88 | 620 |
Gale, Thomas | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1855-59 | 578 |
Gale, William Alfred | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1873-74 | 430 |
Gange, William Mark | Bishop Bonner PH | 1886-93 | 72 |
Gannaway, John | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1880-84 | 277 |
Garcia, Edward | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1867 | 654 [application later withdr4awn] |
Garcia, Edward | Canterbury Hall | 1880-81 | 129 |
Garland, Henry | Railway PH (Woolwich) | 1894-1903 | 641 |
Garland, Walter | Queen’s Head PH | 1872-75 | 633 |
Garner, William | Duke’s Head PH (Whitechapel) | 1852-59 | 246 |
Garner, Frederick | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1875-76 | 161 |
Garniss, Thomas | Rosemary Branch MH [Lovejoy’s MH, Peckham Th. of Varieties, etc.] | 1863-67, 1872-76 | 564 |
Garrard, Hatsell | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1886-(?)89 | 63 |
Garratt, John | Copenhagen PH | 1853-55 | 177 |
Garrett, Thomas | King’s Head PH (St. Marylebone) | 1867-68 | 441 |
Garrett, William Frederick | Duke of Richmond PH | 1886-88 | 233 |
Gascoigne, Henry | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1886-89, 1891-93 | 853 |
Gatti, Agostino | Vaudeville Theatre | 1895-96 | 830 |
Gatti, Agostino, and | Adelaide Gallery, Th. of Varieties Monico, Giacomo refused licence | 1862 | 5 |
Gatti, Agostino and Gatti, Stefano | Royal Adelphi Theatre | 1878-85 | 6 |
Gatti, Agostino, Gatti, Stefano and Frohman, Charles | Vaudeville Theatre | 1905 | 830 |
Gatti, Carlo, Gatti, Giovani and Monico, Guiseppe | Hungerford Music Hall | 1858-62 | 394 |
Gatti, Carlo | Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1865-78 | 303 |
The Arches [Gatti’s, Player’s Theatre, etc.] | 1867-78 | 587 | |
Gatti, John Austin | Vaudeville Theatre | 1950-[?] | 830 |
Gatti, John Maria and Gatti, Rocco | Vaudeville Theatre | 1905-29 | 830 |
Gatti, Maria and Corazza, Rosa | Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1878-78 | 303 |
Gatti, Rocco | Vaudeville Theatre | 1929-32, 1933-35 | 830 |
Gatti, Rocco and Gatti, John Austin | Vaudeville Theatre | 1939-50 | 830 |
Gatti, Rosa Corazza | The Arches [Gatti’s, Player’s Theatre, etc.] | 1878-79 | 587 |
Gatti, Stefano | Royal Adelphi Theatre | 1885-1900 | 6 |
Vaudeville Theatre | 1892-95, 1896-1905 | 830 | |
Gaunt, William Clifford | Winter Garden Theatre | 1926-28 | 896 |
Adelphi Theatre | 1926-31 | 6 | |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1926-31 | 296 | |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1926-31 | 375 | |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1926-31 | 725 | |
Gay, William Charles | Jerusalem PH | 1874-[?] | 403 |
Gaye, Robert Edward | Adam & Eve PH (Holborn) | 1857-59 | 2 |
Gayford, Dudley John | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1913-36 | 22 |
Gaze, George | Wheatsheaf PH (St. Marylebone) | 1853-60 | 859 |
Gear, Robert | Borough MH | 1859-70 | 90 |
Gear, Walter John | Peacock PH | 1882-83 | 562 [1883 licence refused as it was seldom used] |
Geary, John Joseph | Fox and Cock PH | 1855-56 | 290 |
Gedge, Frederick | Crown PH (Golden Sq., Westminster) | 1861-63 | 192 |
Geering, Ernest | Camberwell Palace | 1939-43 | 124 |
Gehringer, Frederick | City of Norwich PH | 1855-68 | 157 |
Geils, Henry Peter | Ship PH (Mile End) | 1855-57 | 734 |
Gentry, Edward | City of York PH | 1890-91 | 159 |
George, Anna Susanna | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) [Victoria Hall, Bijou Theatre] | 1897-1903 | 823 |
George, Henry | Queen’s Arms PH (Plumstead) | 1888-90 | 627 |
George, Martin | Three Crowns PH (Wapping) | 1854-56 | 805 |
George, Peter Joseph | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) [Victoria Hall, Bijou Theatre] | 1888-97 | 823 |
George, William | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1863-65 | 832 |
George, William Edward | Talbot PH | 1866-67 | 788 |
Gerber. E. | Manor Theatre | 1903 | 483 [15.10.03 does not renew licence] |
Gerbold, John | Prince of Orange PH | 1852-54 | 600 |
Gerdes, Herman | White Bear PH | 1854-60 | 860 |
Gerkes, Johan Jockim | King’s Arms PH (Fieldgate St., Stepney) | 1855-63 | 424 [1863 licence refused] |
Gerlach, John | Offord Arms PH | 1883-90 | 532 |
Gerlach, John Ernest | Assembly House PH | 1884-86 | 37 |
German Reed, Thomas | see under Reed, below | ||
Gibb, John | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1853-56 | 526 |
Gibb, John David | Britannia PH (Wapping) | 1867-72 | 103 |
Gibbons, Adney W. | Chelsea Palace | 1931-42 | 144 |
Gibbons, Arthur Handel Elliott | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1928-35 | 699 |
Gibbons, Walter | Duchess Palace / Duchess Theatre / Balham Hippodrome | 1905-13 | 46 |
Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties / Holborn Empire | 1905-13 | 376 | |
Poplar Hippodrome | 1907-12 | 589 | |
Islington Empire [formerly Grand Theatre] | 1908-13 | 400 | |
(New) Royal Standard Theatre / Shoreditch Olympia [etc.] | 1908[?]-13[?] | 740 | |
Terriss’ Theatre / Rotherhithe Hippodrome] | 1908-13 | 674 | |
Woolwich Hippodrome | 1908-13 | 903 | |
Leicester Square Theatre (of Varieties) | 1932-33 | 453 | |
Gibbons, William Joseph | Camel PH | 1868-69 | 129 |
Gibbs, Charlotte Phillis [sic] | Queen’s Head PH | 1866-72 | 633 |
Gibbs, James Frederick | Spread Eagle PH | 1872-82 | 756 |
Gibbs, John | Queen’s Head PH | 1864-66 | 633 |
Gibbs, Richard Homer | City of London Theatre | 1868-69 | 156 |
Gibbs, Thomas | Offord Arms PH | 1865-74 | 532 |
Gibbs, Thomas | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1877-78 | 321 |
Gibbs, William | Hop Pole PH | 1870-74 | 383 |
Gibson, John | Perseverance PH | 1852-63 | 569 |
Gibson, John James | Hope Music Hall | 1873-74 | 384 |
Gigney, Henry | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1879-91 | 895 |
Gilbert, Arthur | Royal Standard Theatre /Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] as New Olympic Picturedrome | 1926-39[?] | 740 |
Gilbert, Charles | Camel PH | 1870-71 | 129 |
Britannia PH (City Road) | 1882-84 | 100 | |
Gilbert, Charles Gould | (Royal) Soho Theatre [Royalty Theatre, etc.] | 1852-60 | 699 |
Gilbert, Edmund | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1852-70 | 471 |
Gilbert, Elizabeth | Lion PH (Bethnal Green) | 1854-55, 1856-57 | 457 |
Gilbert, George Ward | Lion PH (Bethnal Green) | 1857-60 | 457 |
Gilbert, Samuel | Lord Nelson PH (Clare Market) | 1858-60 | 468 |
Giles, John (as The Hop Pole)op Pole)Hop | Hop Pole PH | 1860-62. 1863-65 | 383 [1862, licence refused] |
Giles, John | Morpeth Castle PH | 1876-78 | 504 |
Giles, John Henry | Phoenix Hall (Shoreditch) | 1863-64 | 576 |
Beckford’s Head PH | 1865-75 | 56 | |
Gilham, George | Surrey Canal PH | 1854-57 | 779 |
Gill, George | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1862-65 | 773 |
Gill, George and Eplett, Thomas | New Albert Theatre [Garrick Theatre] (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1875-76 | 300 |
Gill, Henry George | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1901-03 | 908 |
Gill, James | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1862-64 | 80 |
Gillespie, Richard Henry | London Hippodrome | 1920-47 | 462 |
Finsbury Park Empire | 1920-47 | 278 | |
New Cross Empire [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1921-25 | 516 | |
Dominion Theatre | 1929-32 | 219 | |
Victoria Palace | 1930-48 | 834 | |
Gillespie, Richard Henry | New Cross Empire Moss Empires Ltd. and [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1925-47 | 516 |
Gillett, Thomas Frank | Coronet Theatre | 1918-20 | 178 |
Gilling, Elizabeth | Fox and French Horn PH | 1862-66 | 291 |
Gilling, Leopold | Fox and French Horn PH | 1860-62 | 291 |
Gillman, Henry | Crystal Palace Theatre | 1898-1900 | 205 |
Gilmer, Albert Augustus | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1893-95 | 22 |
Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1896-98 | 616 | |
Giovannelli, Edward | Alexandra Th. & Highbury Barn | 1865-71 | 19 |
Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / West London Theatre, etc.] | 1870-71 | 853 | |
Gladman, Joseph | Eastnor Castle PH | 1865-67 | 258 |
Gladstone, Thomas | Th. R., Adelphi | 1843-44 | 6 |
Gladwin, Alfred Edgar | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1897-98 | 895 |
Glancy, John | Bishop Bonner PH | 1883-84 | 72 |
Glasgow, William | Exmouth Arms PH | 1859-62 | 275 |
Glassborow, Ann Matilda | Queen Eleanor PH | 1873-78 | 620 |
Glassborow, Charles | Queen Eleanor PH | 1863-73 | 620 |
Glassborow, Charles John | Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1878-86 | 839 |
Glave, George | Approach PH | 1863-64 | 34 |
Glenister, Frank | London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1898-1925 | 465 |
Glover, Edward Samuel | Good Duke Humphrey Coffee Tavern (Greenwich) | 1892-93 | 326 |
Glover, G.A. | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1945-46 | 243 |
Glover, James | Red Lion PH (Holborn) | 1862-63 | 648 |
Gobby, Henry | Hope Music Hall | 1885-88 | 384 |
Gobby, Joseph | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1881-? | 356 |
Gobert, Mary | Grosvenor Arms PH | 1862-63 | 354 |
Godbold, Henry | Criterion Theatre | 1896-1902 | 186 |
Freemason’s PH (Holborn) | 1897-98 | 292 | |
Goddard, William James | Royal Hotel (Stepney) | 1886-87 | 685 |
Godfrey, Charles | Godfrey’s Music Hall [Castle Music Hall] | 1883-84 | 136 |
Godfrey, Peter [manager] [theatre club, not licensed] | Gate Theatre (Villiers St., Charing Cross) | 1925-33 | 301 |
Godier, William | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1855-60 | 847 |
Goff, Henry Alexander | Paul’s Head PH | 1861-65 | 559 |
Goide, Henry | Mile End Empire [Paragon MH, etc.] | 1921-[?23] | 494 |
Goldberg, Henry John | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1913 | 853 |
. . and Bartleman, John George | . . | 1913 | . . |
Goldstein, Mark | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1900-01 | 908 |
Gooch, Walter | Metropolitan Music Hall | 1873-76 | 493 |
Princess’s Theatre (2nd & 3rd buildings) | 1877-81, 1893-96 | 616 | |
Good, Charles | Little Driver PH | 1871-73 | 459 |
Goode, Arthur | Percy Arms PH | 1880-82 | 568 |
Gooding, Thomas | Peacock PH | 1859-61 | 562 |
Gooding, Thomas | Swiss Cottage PH (Hackney) | 1865-66 | 787 |
Sir Sidney Smith PH | 1867-69 | 748 | |
Goodliffe, Joseph | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1854-55 | 352 |
Goodson, Henry | New Bedford Th. / Palace of Varieties / | 1919-21 | |
Bedford MH | 1928-32, 1939-40 | 58 | |
Goodwin, Robert | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1864-66 | 392 |
Goosey, William | Belvidere PH | 1875-80 | 68 |
Gordon, Arabella | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1872-73 | 357 |
Gordon, Charles | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1868-72 | 357 |
Gordon, Charles | Queen’s Arms PH (Plumstead) | 1881-85 | 627 |
Gordon, Emma | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1888-90 | 76 |
Gordon, Henry | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1868-73 | 526 |
Gordon, Joseph | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1908-09 | 560 |
Gore, Henry | Duke of Cornwall PH | 1854 | 230 |
Gorringe, Francis | Hand and Flower PH | 1871-83 | 364 |
Gosden, James | Brown Bear PH (Knightsbridge) | 1877-79 | 112 |
Gosden, Mary Ann | Brown Bear PH (Knightsbridge) | 1879-80 | 112 |
Gosling, Harold | Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1933-40 | 626 |
Globe Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave.) [Hicks Th./Gielgud Th.] | 1933 (through 1950) | 317 | |
Goswell, Thomas | Royal York PH | 1862-64 | 698 |
Belvidere PH | 1867-75 | 68 | |
Got, Prospere | Opera Comique | 1871 | 550 |
Gotto, Peter | Balham Empire | 1907-08 | 45 |
Goulding, Mary Ann Sophia | Duke of Hamilton PH | 1878-81 | 231 |
Goulding, William | `Duke of Hamilton PH | 1860-78 | 231 |
Goward, John | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1855-61 | 832 |
Graham, George John | Spread Eagle PH | 1861-62 | 756 |
Graham, Henry Montgomery | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1893 | 411 |
Graham, John Cecil | Carlton Theatre | 1927-29 | 134 |
Grahame, Cissie | Opera Comique | 1890-91 | 550 |
Grain, Corney and Reed, Alfred | St. George’s Hall | 1877-95 | 703 |
Grainger, William Henry [receiver for mortgage] | Fortune Theatre | 1930-32 | 285 |
Grant, William Charles | Moore Arms PH | 1876-79 | 502 |
Gratton, George Formon | Guy of Warwick PH | 1864-65 | 358 |
Gravely, George and Holland, Joseph | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1888-90 | 877 |
Graves, Thomas | Green Dragon PH (Poplar High Street) | 1859-60 | 337 |
Gray, Charles William | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1883-86 | 640 |
Gray, George Herbert | Greenwich Theatre (London Road) [Morton’s Th., Carlton Th., etc.] | 1911 | 347 |
Gray, Henry Adolphus Crowhurst | Bald Faced Stag PH | 1880-83 | 44 |
Gray, Robert William | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1890-91 | 601 [licence retained] |
Graydon, James Lawrence | Middlesex MH | 1874-1911 | 896 |
New Middlesex Th. of Varieties | 1912-16 | 896 | |
Graydon, Sarah | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1884-88 | 284 |
Greaves, Alfred | Sugar Loaf PH (Mile End New Town) | 1860-62 | 770 |
Greaves, Thomas | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1873-76 | 162 |
Green, Eliza | Little Driver PH | 1851-62 | 459 |
Green, Frederick, Clark, Cumberland and Doig, Jack | Collins’ Music Hall | 1933-34 | 168 |
Green, James | Little Driver PH | 1850-51 | 459 |
Green, John (Paddy Green) | Evan’s Music-and-Supper Rooms [Grand Hotel] | 1854-71 | 273 |
Green, John | Rose and Crown PH (Greenwich) | 1855-? | 346 [later (rebuilt) Crowder’s MH, [records missing 1861-65] Greenwich Hippodrome, etc.] |
Green, Richard | Running Horse PH | 1863-64 | 700 |
Green, Stephen | Little Driver PH | 1862-66 | 459 |
Green, Thomas | Mitre Music Hall | 1855-[?] | 498 [records for 1861-65 missing] |
Green, Thomas Lewis | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1861-68 | 411 |
Green, William Henry and Green, James Joseph | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1868-70 | 411 |
Green, William Henry | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1870-80, 1881-82 | 279 |
Greenfield, George | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1878-80 | 863 |
Greenfield, Harvey | Mitford Castle PH | 1866-76 | 497 |
Greenslade, William Webber | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1882 | 98 |
Greenwood, James | Offord Arms PH | 1854-60 | 532 |
Greenwood, John | Golden Lion PH (St. Pancras) | 1854-61 | 322 |
Greenwood, Robert Benjamin | Montpelier Tavern / Montpelier Music Hall | 1859-64 | 501 |
Greenwood, Thomas | Bee Hive PH (Deptford) | 1853-54 | 61 |
Greenwood, Thomas Longden | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1843-45 | . . |
. . Phelps, Samuel and Warner, Robert | . . | 1845-46 | . . |
. . and Phelps, Samuel | . . | 1846-62 | 702 |
Greenwood, William | Northumberland Arms PH | 1848-62 | 530 |
Greet, Philip Ben and Wilde, Henry John | Parkhurst Theatre | 1898-1902 | 558 |
Greet, William | (Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1894-96 | 588 |
Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1896-97 | 299 | |
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1896-1914 | 478 | |
Comedy Theatre | 1898-1905 | 170 | |
Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1900-02 | 316 | |
Savoy Theatre (1st building) | 1901-03 | 716 | |
Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1908-09 | 626 | |
Greeves, John William | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1875-88 | 690 [1888, licence refused] |
Gregory, Emanuel | Crown PH (Bethnal Green) | 1874-75 | 193 |
Grendon, George | Duke of York PH (King’s Cross) | 1854-60 | 242 |
Grey, John | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1878-87 | 784 |
Grieve, Thomas | Gallery of Illustration | 1955-56 | 297 |
Grieve, Thomas and Telbin, William | Gallery of Illustration | 1956-60 | 297 |
Grieveson, Charles | Camel PH | 1885-86 | 128 |
Griffin, James | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1881-91 | 438 |
Griffin, John | Belgrave PH | 1849-52 | 62 |
Griffith, Robert Morgan Holt | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1866-68 | 325 |
Griffiths, Charlotte | Old Crown PH (Islington) | 1899-1903 | 536 |
Griffiths, Frederick Richard | Balham Empire | 1909 | 45 |
West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1910-11 | 853 | |
Griffiths, James | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1882-87 | 228 |
Griffiths, William | Victoria Hall | 1861-64 | 833 |
Grimes, Andrew William | Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1886-91 | 839 [Nov. 1891, transfer of licence refused] |
Grimes, Hannah Wheeler | Lion PH (Bethnal Green) | 1855-56 | 457 |
Grimes, Robert Green | Scarborough Arms PH | 1854-56 | 718 |
Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) [Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 1856-61 | 624 | |
Childe Harold PH | 1869-70 | 150 | |
Grimes, William George | Brixton Theatre | 1907 | 108 |
Grimes, William John | Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1899-1900 | 267 |
Putney Hippodrome [Putney Empire Palace of Varieties] | 1907-10 | 619 | |
Grinham, Thomas | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1877-80 | 323 |
Grinonneau, John Thomas | White Horse PH (Bethnal Green) | 1890 | 872 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Grist, John | Laurel Tree PH | 1862-71 | 450 |
Grist, Arthur Algernon Welesley | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1909-10 | 454 |
Groh, Henry George | Royal Crown PH | 1867-72 | 681 [1872 licence refused as dancing had been allowed] |
Gros, Henri | Metropolitan Music Hall/Theatre | 1893-1911 | 493 |
Chelsea Palace | 1903-10 | 144 | |
Grose, Joseph | Royal York PH | 1854-61 | 698 |
Gross, Paul Carl Richard | White Bear PH | 1884-86 | 860 |
Gross, William John | Duke’s Head PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1856-88 | 245 |
Grossmith, George [Jnr] | Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1927-31 | 765 |
Grossmith, George [Jnr] and | Winter Garden Theatre | 1919-21 | 896 |
. . Laurillard, Edward | Adelphi Theatre | 1920-21 | 6 |
Apollo Theatre | 1920-21 | 33 | |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1920-21 | 296 | |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1920-21 | 725 | |
Grossmith, George [Jnr] and | Winter Garden Theatre | 1921-26 | 896 |
. . Malone, Joseph | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1921-26 | 725 |
[Archibald Edward] | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1923-26 | 375 |
Grouse, Catherine | Borough MH | 1879-80 | 90 |
Raglan Music Hall (Southwark) | 1890-92 | 635 | |
Grove, John | Old King John’s Head PH | 1862-63 | 539 |
Grove, William | Spread Eagle PH | 1848-61 | 756 |
Grover, John | Wellington Hall (Islington) | 1890-96 | 850 |
Groves, Elizabeth | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1854-56 | 437 |
Groves, Thomas | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1863-77 | 863 |
Grubb, James | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1864-66 | 690 |
Grumbridge, George and Ward, James | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1857-59 | 15 |
Grundy, John | Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1843-44 | 740 |
Guess, Edgar | Ship and Blue Coat Boy PH | 1884-88 | 736 |
Guiver, [Morris] James | Princess’s Theatre (2nd building) | 1873-74 | 616 |
Royal Holborn Theatre | 1874-75 | 244 | |
Gulliver, Charles | Camden Theatre [Camden Hippodrome] | 1911-12 | 127 |
New Grand Theatre of Varieties (Clapham Junction) [Grand Theatre] 1910-11, 1915-28 | 330 | ||
Lewisham Hippodrome | 1910-25 | 454 | |
Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1912-19, 1923-27 | 674 | |
Poplar Hippodrome | 1912-25 | 589 | |
Palladium Theatre [London Palladium] | 1912-28 | 463 | |
Camberwell Palace | 1912-28 | 124 | |
(New) Royal Standard Theatre / Shoreditch Olympia [etc.] | 1912[?]-26[?] | 740 | |
Islington Palace/Empire [formerly Grand Theatre] | 1912-28 | 400 | |
Balham Hippodrome | 1913-21 | 46 | |
Putney Hippodrome [Putney Empire Palace of Varieties] | 1913-[?]24 | 619 | |
Woolwich Hippodrome | 1913-24 | 903 | |
Holborn Empire | 1913-28 | 376 | |
Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1913-28 | 363 | |
Camberwell Theatre and Picture Palace [Camberwell Empire] | 1916-20 | 123 | |
Collins’ Music Hall | 1919-27 | 168 | |
New Bedford Th. / Palace of Varieties | 1921-28 | 58 | |
Gulliver, Charles and London Theatres of Varieties | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1925-28 | 454 |
Gurney, Alfred | Island Queen PH | 1872-75 | 399 |
Gurney, Charles | White Hart PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1856-61 | 864 |
Gurney, Frederick | City of Gloucester PH | 1890-91 | 154 |
Gurney, George | Beckford’s Head PH | 1864-65 | 56 |
Gurney, Richard Cassius | Greyhound PH (Battersea) | 1868-69 | 349 |
Guthrie, [William] Tyrone | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1939-42 | 702 |
The ‘Old Vic’ | 1940-41 | 545 | |
Guttman, Charles | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1878-79 | 851 |
Gwynn, John Robert | Castle PH (Shoreditch) | 1863 | 138 |
Gwynne, George Robert | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1883-87 | 445 |
Gye, Frederick | Lyceum Theatre | 1856, 1857 | 476 [Manager] |
Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden | 1858- ? | 182 [a patent theatre, therefore not licensed] | |
Hackett, Walter | Whitehall Theatre | 1930-34 | 884 |
Hadley, Samuel | Prendergast Arms PH | 1874-75 | 590 |
Hagger, Thomas | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1877-78 | 342 |
Haines, William Daniel | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1855-56 | 863 |
Haitsch, August | Spread Eagle PH | 1888 | 756 [1889, licence refused] |
Hake, George Henry | Waterloo Hero PH | 1880-82 | 846 |
Hale, Robert | Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / West London Theatre, etc.] | 1870 | 853 |
Hales, Maria Charlotte | Black Bull PH (Southwark) | 1864-67 | 74 |
Hales, Robert | Craven Head PH | 1854-56 | 184 |
Hall, Amner [Horne, Alderson Burrell] | Westminster Theatre | 1931-47 | 854 |
Hall, Charlotte Susannah | Cock and Hoop PH | 1886-87 | 167 |
Hall, Edward Ramsden | Saville Theatre | 1946-47 | 715 |
Hall, George David | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1863-68 | 42 |
Bagnigge Wells PH | 1869-70 | 42 | |
Hall, Harry Bonham | Camden Arms PH | 1850-51 | 126 |
Hall, Henry | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1856-64 | 76 |
Hall, James | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1877-78 | 471 |
Hall, John | Earl of Ellesmere PH | 1866-77 | 254 |
Hall, John | Cock and Hoop PH | 1866-86 | 167 |
Hall, Maria Bryant | Camden Arms PH | 1851-52 | 126 |
Hall, Mary (Administratrix) | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1864-65 | 76 |
Hall, Samuel | Bull PH | 1870-74 | 119 |
Hall, Thomas | Montpelier Tavern | 1853-54 | 501 |
Hall, William | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1880-84 | 744 |
Hallat, Elizabeth Mary | Builders Arms PH (Chelsea) | 1861-62 | 117 |
Hallatt, James Frederick | Crown PH (Golden Sq., Westminster) | 1855-56 | 192 |
Hallet, John Ford | Helvetia Music Hall | 1863-69 | 372 |
Halton, Marie (Mrs. Richard Foster) | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1893 | 725 |
Haman, Joseph | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1884-88 | 908 |
Hamilton, George | Cherry Tree PH (Bromley) | 1857-61 | 148 |
Hamilton, Harry Herbert | Hamilton’s Royal Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1878-79 | 377 |
North London Colosseum [Dalston Theatre] | 1890 | 208 | |
Hamilton, William Thomas | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1852-55 | 84 |
Three Compasses PH and Tea Garden (Dalston, Hackney) | 1858-60 | 801 | |
Hamlin, John | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1886-76 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | see | 739 | |
Hammant, Thomas | Three Compasses PH (Mount St., Hanover Sq.) | 1855-56 | 800 |
Hammerstein, Oscar | London Opera House [Stoll Theatre, etc.] | 1911-13 | 764 |
Hammond, Bert Ernest | Brixton Theatre / Melville Theatre | 1938-40 | 108 |
Lyceum Theatre | 1939 | 476 | |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1938-[?] | 612 | |
Hammond, Harvey | Lord Raglan Music Hall and PH (Plumstead) | 1874-76 | 472 |
Hammond, John | King’s Head PH (Clapton) | 1862-63 | 440 |
Hammond, John | Pied Horse PH | 1867-72 | 583 |
Hammond, Richard Holmes | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1868-81 | 263 |
Hammond, Robert | Running Horse PH | 1864-72 | 700 |
Hammond, Thomas | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1869-74 | 757 |
Hammond, Walter | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1878-79 | 838 |
Hams, James | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1868-69 | 878 |
Hanley, William | Compasses PH | 1867-72 | 174 |
Hanney, James | Queen Eleanor PH | 1878-80 | 620 |
Harcourt, Charles and | Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / Sydney, George FrederickWest London Theatre, etc.] | 1869 | 853 |
Harcourt, Charles | . . | 1871-72 | . . |
Harding, Henry | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1854-55 | 578 |
Harding, John Edward | Queensbury All Services Club [London Casino / Prince Edward Theatre] | 1942-46 | 135 |
Hardy, Abraham | Moore Arms PH | 1868-76 | 502 |
Hardy, Arthur Frederick | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1911 | 765 |
Hardy, George | Hope PH (Blackmore St., Clare Market) | 1859-60 | 385 |
Hare, John | Belgravia Theatre [New Chelsea Theatre / Court Theatre] | 1875-79 | 181 |
Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1889-96 | 299 | |
Hare, Joh and Kendal, William Hunter | St. James’s Theatre | 1879-88 | 705 |
Hare, William | White Lion PH (Woolwich) | 1853-54 | 875 |
Canterbury PH (Woolwich) | 1854-57 | 130 | |
Hargreaves, Alexander | Jew’s Harp PH | 1863-64 | 404 |
Harper, John | Three Compasses PH (Mount St., Hanover Sq.) | 1856-62 | 800 |
Harper, John | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1877-78 | 431 |
Harris [Glossop], Augustus [Snr] | Princess’s Theatre (1st building) | 1859-62 | 616 |
Harris, Sir Augustus | Palace Theatre of Varieties [Royal English Opera House] | 1892-93 | 554 |
Harris, Charles | Dauntless Hall | 1880-93 | 210 |
Baxter Arms PH | 1883-85 | 54 | |
Harris, David [tenant] | Phoenix Music Hall (Camberwell) | c. 1887 [not licensed] | 577 |
Harris, Edward | Blue Anchor PH (Wapping) | 1867-78 | 85 |
Harris, Frederick James | Opera Comique | 1885-86, 1886-90 | 550 |
Harris, Henry Kingsland | Queen’s Arms PH (? Pimlico/Hanover Square) | 1867-76 | 632 |
Harris, John | Seven Stars PH | 1875-77 | 722 |
Harris, John | Ordnance Arms PH | 1877-91 | 551 |
Harris, John | Red Lion and Spread Eagle PH | 1863-67 | . . |
. . and Collins, Nicholas | . . | 1859-60 | 653 |
Harris, John James | Prince Arthur PH | 1868-71 | 596 |
Harris, Maria and Crispin, Augusta Maria | Borough MH | 1849-53 | 90 |
Harris, Maria | Borough MH | 1853-59 | 90 |
Harris, Miss Nelly | Novelty Theatre | 1883-85 | 443 |
Harrison, Arthur | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1880-81 | 783 |
Harrison, Charles and Powell, Henry | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1864-65 | 560 |
Harrison, Elisha | Corunna Music Hall | 1881- ? | 179 |
Harrison, Frederick | Haymarket, Theatre Royal | 1896-1927 | 371 |
Harrison, John | Hope Music Hall | 1860-61 | 384 |
Harrison, John | Brookdale Hall | 1886-87 | 111 |
Harrison, John Arthur | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1909-10 | 765 |
Harrison, Richard | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1850-51 | 526 |
Harrison, William Lorrieux | Bishop Bonner PH | 1875-76 | 72 |
Hart, Edward | Marylebone Music Hall | 1897-1900 | 491 |
Hart, Emily | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1888-90 | 847 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Hart, Henry | Lord Raglan Music Hall and PH (Holborn) | 1857-77 | 473 |
Hart, Henry | Star Music Hall | 1883-85 | 761 |
Hart, Henry | Sun Music Hall | 1884-85 | 771 |
Hart, Henry | Bedford MH | 1885-96 | 58 |
Marylebone Music Hall | 1896-97 | 491 | |
Hart, James | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1881-88 | 847 |
Hart, John | Cyder Cellars | 1858-62 | 207 |
Hart, John | Three Compasses PH and Tea Garden (Dalston, Hackney) | 1860-63 | 801 |
Hart, John | Star Music Hall | 1885-[?]1919 | 761 |
Hart, Robert | Salmon and Compasses PH | 1860-61 | 714 |
Hart, Samuel | Borough MH | 1879-80 | 90 |
Hart, Samuel | Montpelier Tavern / Montpelier Music Hall | 1890-94 | 501 |
Hart, William | Cardinal Wolsey PH | 1862-63 | 132 |
Hart, William | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1873-76 | 98 |
Harte, Samuel and Smith, Frederick Hy. | Collins’ Music Hall | 1932-33 | 168 |
Hartshorn, Edmund | Alma MH | 1873-74 | 23 |
Harvey, William Percy | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1865-75 | 508 |
Harwood, George | St. Leonard’s Hall | 1867-70 | 708 |
Harwood’s Music Hall [ Variety Th., etc.] (Shoreditch) | 1870-89 | 829 | |
Harwood, James | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1868-69 | 560 |
Theatre Royal, Astley’s | 1869-70 | 38 | |
Harwood, Sarah | St. Leonard’s Hall | 1865-67 | 708 |
Harwood, Sarah | Britannia PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1869-72 | 101 |
Harwood, Thomas | St. Leonard’s Hall | 1854-65 | 708 |
Harwood, William | Assembly House PH | 1878-84 | 37 |
Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1884-86 | 63 | |
Queen’s Head PH | 1888-91 | 633 | |
Hasleden, John and Clement, G[eorge] S[pencer] | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1867-69 | 585 |
Haslip, Peter | Colonel Wardle PH | 1855-64 | 98 |
Haslip, Thomas Francis | John of Jerusalem PH | 1876-78 | 406 |
Hastilow, Thomas | Sir John Barleycorn PH | 1853-54 | 742 |
Hastings, Thomas | Railway PH (Woolwich) | 1885-90 | 641 [1890, licence retained] |
Hawgood, Handell | Cock and Hoop PH | 1855-58 | 167 |
Hawkins, Charles | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1860-66 | 63 |
Hawkins, John and Palmer, Arthur William | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1885-87 | 92 |
Hawkins, John | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1887-90 | 92 |
Hawksley, Henry | Yorkshire Grey PH | 1861-83 | 909 |
Hawley, Henry | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1878-79 | 325 |
Hawthorne, Grace | Olympic Theatre 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1886-87 | 549 |
Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1887-91 | 616 | |
Hawtree, Charles Thomas | Granville Theatre of Varieties | 1939-42 | 333 |
Hawtrey, Anthony | Embassy Theatre | 1946 (through 1950) | 265 |
Hawtrey, Charles Henry | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1884-87 | 316 |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1885-86 | 375 | |
Comedy Theatre | 1888-93, 1896-98 | 170 | |
(Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1896-1901 | 588 | |
Hay, John | Bishop Bonner PH | 1877-79 | 72 |
Haycroft, Jane | Hop and Grapes PH (Stepney) | 1890-92 | 381 |
Hayden, Benjamin | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1863-64 | 431 |
Hayes, Samuel | St. James’s Theatre | 1877-78 | 705 |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1884 | 375 | |
Hayes, Thomas | Star Music Hall | 1867-79, 1880-81 | 761 |
Hayman, George | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1865-67 | 321 |
Hayne, Benjamin | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1856-62 | 392 |
Haynes, William | Lord High Admiral PH | 1854-55 | 467 |
Haynes, William Henry | Odell Arms PH | 1863-69 | 531 |
Hayward, Ann | Eagle PH [Lusby’s MH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1870-74 | 494 |
Hayward, Edward | Eagle PH [Lusby’s MH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1861-70 | 494 |
Hayward, Edwin | Duke of Kent PH | 1862-63 | 232 |
Hayward, Eliza | Bishop Bonner PH | 1885-86 | 72 |
Hayward, Henry John | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1865-66 | 234 |
Hayward, Henry Gould | Eagle PH [Lusby’s MH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1855-61 | 494 |
Hayward, Isaac | Bishop Bonner PH | 1884-85 | 72 |
Hayward, John | Rose and Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1863-64 | 667 |
Hayward, Mary | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1866-68 | 234 |
Haywood, Henry Gould | Woodman PH (Bethnal Green) | 1851-52 | 900 |
Haywood, William | Temperance Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1881-94 | 791 |
Hazelton, Victor Isaac | Bower Saloon at Dukes’s PH / Bower Theatre / Stangate MH | 1855-76 | 93 |
Head, Charles | Philharmonic Hall /Theatre | 1873-74, 1877-82 | 400 |
Healey, George | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1857-60 | 837 |
Hearn, Charles | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1868-70 | 98 |
Hearn, William | Hole in the Wall PH | 1860-61 | 378 |
Heath, Ellen and Ball, William | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1886-87 | 102 |
Heath, Ellen, Ball, William, and Ball, Emma | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1887-90 | 102 |
Heath, Thomas and Ball, William | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1885-86 | 102 |
Heath, William | Pied Horse PH | 1876-90 | 583 |
Heathman, William | Alhambra (Woolwich) | 1869-72 | 21 |
Heaton, John | Athenaeum (Islington) | 1871-75 | 39 |
Heaverman, George | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1855-62 | 352 |
Hebble, William Henry | Prince Alfred PH | 1883-86 | 595 |
Hector, Charles | (Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1906-09 | 677 |
Hedges, Edwin | Stag PH | 1860-63 | 758 |
Hell(e)well, Frederick | Flora Gardens | 1857-62 | 280 |
Heltmann, Peter | Comet PH | 1866-72 | 171 |
Hemingway, Kate and Chown, Fanny | Bank of Friendship PH | 1881-82 | 47 |
Hemingway, Thomas | Bank of Friendship PH | 1862-69 | 47 |
Hemingway, Mary Jane | Bank of Friendship PH | 1869-81 | 47 |
Hendebourck, Hannah | City of Gloucester PH | 1872-73 | 154 |
Hendebourck, William | City of Gloucester PH | 1865-72 | 154 |
Henderson, Alexander | National Theatre (Long Acre) [Queen’s Theatre] | 1868-69 | 623 |
Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1875-76 | 316 | |
(Royal) Charing Cross Theatre [later Folly / Toole’s Theatre] | 1876-79 | 814 | |
Comedy Theatre | 1881-84 | 170 | |
Henderson, Alexander Francis | Grand Theatre (Fulham) | 1897-1906 | 329 |
Henderson, Arthur | (New) Prince’s Theatre [Garrick Theatre] (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1878-79 | 300 |
Henderson, Laura | Windmill Theatre | 1931-44 | 889 |
Hengler, Albert Henry | Henry Hengler’s Grand Cirque (Argyll St.) | 1890-91 | 463 |
Hengler, Charles | . . | 1871-87 | . . |
Hengler, John Michael | . . | 1889-90, 1891-95 | . . |
Hengler, Frederick Charles and Hengler, Albert Henry | . . | 1887-89 | . . |
Henrade, Marian | Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / West London Theatre, etc.] | 1869 | 853 |
Henry, Martin | Duchess Theatre | 1929-30 | 221 |
Henry, Thomas | Bower Saloon at Dukes’s PH [Bower Th.] | 1854-55 | 93 |
Henson, Leslie and Walls, Tom | Aldwych Theatre | 1922-27 | 17 |
Hepple, James | Bedford PH | 1855-56 | 57 |
Herbert, John | Beckford’s Head PH | 1858-62 | 56 |
Herbert, Ruth | St. James’s Theatre | 1864-68 | 705 |
Herbert, William | Manchester Arms PH | 1866-68 | 482 |
Heritage, James | Royal Albert PH | 1857-61 | 675 |
Herman, Henry Edward, Chapman, Emma Alice, and Squier [sic] Sarah Ann | Trocadero Music Hall | 1888-91 | 819 |
Herring, Alfred | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1886-90 | 298 |
Hetherington, George | Philharmonic Rooms (St. Marylebone) | 1855-57 | 574 |
Hewitt, Agnes | Olympic Theatre 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1887-89 | 549 |
Hewser, Balthaser | Bee Hive PH (Christian St., Stepney) | 1868 [licence refused] | 59 |
Hibberd, Augustus Edin | Trocadero Music Hall | 1894 | 819 |
Hibbered, Edward | Globe and Friends PH | 1868 [licence refused] | 318 |
Hickley, James | Bull PH | 1861-62 | 119 |
Hickman, John | King’s Arms PH (Kennington) | 1861-65 | 427 |
Hickman, Charles | King’s Head PH (Knightsbridge) | 1851-54 | 439 |
Hicks, James | Beckford’s Head PH | 1857-58 | 56 |
Hicks, James | Prince Regent PH (Finsbury) | 1866 [licence refused] | 609 |
Hicks, Robert | Moore Arms PH | 1888-91 | 502 |
Hicks, Seymour | Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1919 | 612 |
Hierons, Mary Ann | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1855-65 | 263 |
Hierons, Samuel | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1854-55 | 263 |
Higgins, Job | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1875 through 1889 | 898 |
Hight, John | Bee Hive PH (Deptford) | 1852-53 | 61 |
Hildreth, James | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1883-91 | 891 |
Hill, Francis Christopher | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1900-02 | 697 |
Hill, George | Gipsy Queen PH | 1861-62 | 310 |
Hill, George | Trafalgar PH | 1878-79 | 816 |
Hill, Henry | Gipsy Queen PH | 1863-66 | 310 |
Hill, Mary Frances | Gipsy Queen PH | 1862-63 | 310 |
Hill, Masterman Hardy Willson | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1873-78 | 408 |
Hill, Sidney Augustus | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1872-73 | 601 |
Hilldrup, Isaac John | Ship and Star PH | 1867-69 | 738 [1869, licence refused following a court case] |
Hillier, Arthur James Metropolitan & Provincial | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1937-38 | 363 |
Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. and ..Kilburn Empire | 1937-38 | 414 | |
Hillier, George | Mitford Castle PH | 1880-91 | 497 |
Hillier, Rienzi | Lord Duncan PH | 1882-83 | 466 |
Hillman, Michael | Duchess Theatre | 1938-41 | 221 |
Hillyard, Ellen | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1880-81 | 832 |
Hillyard, Frederick Thomas | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1879-80 | 832 |
Hillyard, William | Gloucester PH | 1891-94 | 319 |
Hillyer, George | White Horse PH (Stratford, Bow) | 1869-?83 | 874 [1883, licence refused as it was seldom used] |
Hilyer, John Joseph (Marlborough Picture Theatre) | Marlborough Theatre | 1916-19 | 488 |
Hinds, Charles | Grasshopper PH | 1874-79 | 334 |
Hine, George Frederick | Northampton Arms PH | 1893-1903 | 529 |
Hine, William Charles Thomas | Northampton Arms PH | 1890-[?93] | 529 [licence granted but retained] |
Hingston, Edward Peron | Opera Comique | 1872-74 | 550 |
Hinton, Alfred | John Bull PH | 1878-80 | 405 |
Hinton, Archibald | Alexandra Th. & Highbury Barn | 1852-65 | 19 |
Hinton, Eliza | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1888-91 | 263 |
Hipgrave, George Boulton | Manchester Arms PH | 1863-64 | 482 |
Hirst, H.J. | Helvetia Music Hall | 1885-87 | 372 |
Hitchcock, Matthew | Star and Garter PH (Hackney) | 1856-59 | 763 |
Hitchcox, Mathew | Offord Arms PH | 1860-64 | 532 |
Hitchen, Emilia Ann | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1877-78 | 863 |
Hitchins, Harry James | Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1908-12 | 266 |
Hittinger, John Samuel | City of Gloucester PH | 1857-61 | 154 |
Hoather, Henry and Smith, William | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1858-59 | 173 |
Hobday, Edward | Monarch PH | 1854-56 | 499 |
Hobday, Edward Clement | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1872-73 | 345 |
Hobson, Anthony Pemberton | Imperial Theatre [formerly (Royal) Aquarium Theatre] | 1881-85 | 396 |
Hockin, Bartholomew | Trinity Arms PH | 1866-80 | 818 |
Hocking, Joseph Matthew | Marshal Keate PH | 1862-77 | 490 |
Hockley, George | Globe PH (Hatton Garden, Holborn) | 1859-60 | 313 |
Hodge, Henry | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1866-67 | 92 |
Hodges, Copplestone Coward | (New) Strand Theatre | 1845 | 766 |
Hodges. Ernest William Osborne | Ridley Arms PH | 1890 | 658 [Nov. 1890 licence refused] |
Hodges, Henry | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1874-76 | 345 |
Hodges, James | Abbey PH | 1865-67 | 1 |
Hodges, William Edward | Devonshire Arms PH | 1890 | 214 |
Hod[g]kinson, Henry | Fredericks’ Royal Palace of Varieties | ||
[management, no licensing records at LCC] | [Albion Saloon / Wilton’s Music Hall / Mahogany Bar, etc.] | 1877 | 886 |
Hodgson (or Hodson), Henrietta | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1872-77 | 699 |
Hodson, George Alfred | Bower Saloon at Dukes’s PH [Bower Th.] | 1843-45 | 93 |
Hodson (or Hodgson), Henrietta | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1872-77 | 699 |
Hofsommer, Frederick | Bee Hive PH (King St./Christian St., Stepney) | 1861-65 | 59 |
Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1867-77 | 298 | |
Holland, Joseph and Gravely, George | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1888-90 | 877 |
Holland, William | Canterbury Hall | 1868-71 | 129 |
North Woolwich Gardens [ … and Theatre, Royal Pavilion, etc.] | 1869-82 | 691 | |
Surrey Theatre | 1873-81 | 778 [Cancelled 6.7.1881] | |
Albert Palace | 1886-87 | 8 | |
Holland, William Sweasey, John Samuel and | Weston’s / Royal Music Hall | 1866-68 | 376 |
Hollingshead, John | Gaiety Theatre (The Strand) | 1868-86 | 295 |
Holborn Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1874-75 | 377 | |
Opera Comique | 1875 | 550 | |
Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties [later Holborn Empire] | 1892-93 | 376 | |
Hollingsworth, Charles James | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1899-1900 | 697 |
Hollington, Henry Thomas | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1897-98 | 908 |
Hollot, Charles George | Kenton Arms PH (Hackney) | 1866-69 | 413 |
Hollot, Joshua William | Hand and Flower PH | 1883-84 | 364 [1884 application withdrawn] |
Holloway, Jeremiah | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1864-65 | 260 |
Holloway, Jeremiah Lole, Peter and | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1863-64 | 260 |
Holman, Thomas | Duke of Wellington PH (Shepherd Street, Christchurch) | 1868 [licence refused] | 236 |
Holmes, James | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1856-58 | 92 |
Holmes, John | Running Horse PH | 1877-79 | 700 |
Holmes, Thomas | Volunteer PH | 1869-74 | 842 |
Holt, Edward | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1869-70 | 65 |
Holt, Henry | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1863-66 | 908 |
Holt, Henry, Jnr | Waterloo Hero PH | 1861-63 | 846 |
Holt, James | Catherine Wheel PH | 1852-54 | 142 |
Holt, John | Sussex Arms PH (Poplar) | 1863-65 | 782 |
Holt, Joseph Clarence | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1857-58 | 853 |
Holt, Joshua | Waterloo Hero PH | 1863-67 | 846 |
Holt, Launcelot Frederick | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1883-86, 1888-90 | 431 |
Holt, William | St. John’s Wood PH | 1849-57 | 707 |
Holt, William James | Old Mermaid PH | 1869 | 541 |
Homer, Alfred | Old Mermaid PH | 1872 | 541 |
Three Mariners Hotel | 1872-73 | 810 [1873, licence refused] | |
Homer, John James | Dolphin PH (Hackney) | 1850-52 | 217 |
Homewood, James Mayne | Rose and Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1852-53 | 667 |
Homewood, John | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1857-67 | 585 |
Honey, Thomas Richard | Earl of Ellesmere PH | 1877-79 | 254 |
Hood, Charles | Childe Harold PH | 1867-69 | 150 |
Hood, John S., Roe, W. and Foreman, John | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1869-72 | 283 |
Hood, John S., Foreman, John and Perkins, John | . . | 1873-77 | . . |
Hood, Owen | Jerusalem PH | 1889 | 403 [application refused] |
Hoodless, John, Jnr | Britannia MH (Blackfriars Rd., Southwark) | 1879-80 | 97 |
Hooker, Walter | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1857-59 | 277 |
Hookham, James Francis | Duke of Clarence PH (Holborn) | 1854-57 | 226 |
Hooper, Edmond | (New) Strand Theatre | 1848-49 | 766 |
Hopkins. Henry | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1890 | 102 |
Hopperton, Thomas | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1867-73 | 895 |
Horn, Robert | Red Deer PH | 1866-71 | 645 |
Horne, Alderson Burrell k.a. Hall, Amner | Westminster Theatre | 1931-47 | 854 |
Horner, Charles | York and Albany PH | 1877 | 907 [licence refused] |
Horner, Joseph | Waggon and Horse PH | 1862-63 | 843 |
Horner, Joseph | Percy Arms PH | 1869-70 | 568 |
Hornes, Joseph | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1868-72 | 445 |
Horry, Walter Lloyd | Albion Hall | 1871-74 | 11 |
Horry, William | Kingsland, Dalston & De Beauvoir Lit. Inst. | 1857-67 | 11 |
Horry, William Smith | Kingsland, Dalston & De Beauvoir Lit. Inst. [later] Albion Hall | 1850-53 | 11 |
Albion Hall | 1874-87 | 11 | |
Horsfall, Edwin | Beckford’s Head PH | 1876-77 | 56 |
Horsfield, William Foster | St. Martin’s Theatre | 1937-42 | 709 |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1940-41 | 725 [theatre destroyed in air raid, April, 1941] | |
Horsley, Charles | Athenaeum (Highbury) | 1882-89 | 40 |
Horsley, Michael Felix | Peckham Grove PH | 1850-54 | 565 |
Hough, George | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1877-83 | 781 |
Houghton, Clement | Lion PH (Bethnal Green) | 1860-66 | 457 |
House, William | Sessions House Hotel | 1866-76 | 721 |
Housley, John | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1873-74 | 352 |
Howard, Charles | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1861-63 | 437 |
Howard, Henry | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1868-69 | 42 |
Howard, Kate | Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 1st building] | 1844-46 | 549 |
Howe, Thomas Burdett | New Albert Theatre [Garrick Theatre] (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1873 | 300 |
Howell, Arthur William | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1882-83 | 76 |
Howell, George Smith | Prince of Wales PH (Wellesley Road, St. Pancras) | 1854-57 | 606 |
Howell, James | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1882-84, 1892-93 | 22 |
Tivoli Music Hall | 1905-15 | 813 [Ld. Chamberlain’s licence 1912-14, on assumption that a theatre was to be built] | |
Hubbard, Alfred | City of Gloucester PH | 1885-90 | 154 |
Hubbard, Alfred Edward | Sussex Arms PH (Poplar) | 1860-63 | 782 |
Hubble, William | Queen’s Arms PH (Paddington) | 1863-64 | 630 |
Hudson, Abraham | Prendergast Arms PH | 1861-73 | 590 |
Hudson, Benjamin | White Conduit House | 1851-54 | 861 |
Hudson, William Thomas | Old Three Colts PH | 1857-65 | 544 |
Huggett, Joseph | King’s Head PH (Deptford) | 1854-78 | 435 |
Hughes, John | Queen’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1864-66 | 631 |
Hughes, Charles | Crown PH (Clerkenwell) | 1860-62 | 195 |
Hughes, Charles | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1881-82 | 98 |
Hughes, James Alexander | Kingsland, Dalston & De Beauvoir Lit. Inst. | 1853-54 | 11 |
Hughes, James Hayward | King’s Arms PH (Cheyne Walk) | 1869-73, 1875-76 | 422 |
Hughes, John | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1873-74 | 345 |
Huish, Edward Thomas | John of Jerusalem PH | 1878-85 | 406 |
Hullah, John | St. Martin’s Hall /MH (Long Acre) [Queen’s Theatre] | 1850-61 | 623 |
H ummerston, William Vincent | Trevor Music Hall | 1875-85 | 817 |
Hummerton, William Pinsent [sic] | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1861-62 | 321 |
Humphrey, Emma Matilda | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1875-77 | 397 |
Humphrey, John Thomas | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1861-75 | 397 |
Humphreys, Charles | Beckford’s Head PH | 1877-78 | 56 |
Humphreys, David | Flora Gardens | 1855-57 | 280 |
Humphreys, Henry | Bull and Bush PH | 1867 | 120 |
Humphreys, James Charlton | Humphrey’s Hall [Knightsbridge Hall] | 1883-90, 1893-97 | 444 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Sun Music Hall | 1885-90 | 771 [? Charlton, James] | |
. . | 1890 | . . [Nov. 1890, licence refused] | |
Humphreys, Richard | Baxter Arms PH | 1880-83 | 54 |
Humphryes, Arthur | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1876-78 | 80 |
Hungate, Francis | Beckford’s Head PH | 1856-57 | 56 |
Hunt, Arthur and Praed, Herbert Bulkley | Grosvenor Hall | 1876-1903 | 355 |
Hunt, George | Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1884-85 | 266 |
Hunt, Henry | Guy of Warwick PH | 1861-63 | 358 |
Hunt, Horace | Railway PH (Islington) | 1874-75 | 638 |
Hunt, William | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1866-72 | 904 |
Hunt-Helmsley, Charles Thomas | St. James’s Theatre | 1918-19 | 705 |
Hunter, James | Red Deer PH | 1855-61 | 645 |
Hunter, William | Cardinal Wolsey PH | 1865-66 | 132 |
Hurdle, Thomas | Offord Arms PH | 1890 | 532 [Nov. 1890 licence refused] |
Hurgon, Austen | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1910 | 765 |
Hurley, Alfred Ambrose | Rose & Crown PH/Palace of Varieties [prev. Crowder’s MH, later Greenwich Hippodrome] | 1878-1901 | 346 |
Hurran, William | Cumberland Head & Green Gate PH | 1873-85 | 206 |
Hurst, Henry | Prince Regent PH (Finsbury) | 1862-64 | 609 |
Hurst, Israel | Cock and Hoop PH | 1858-66 | 167 |
Hurst, Samuel [executor of Henry Hurst, above] | Prince Regent PH (Finsbury) | 1864-65 | 609 |
Hurst, Sarah | Prince Regent PH (Finsbury) | 1865-66 | 609 |
Hürter, Charles | Tivoli Music Hall | 1884-93 | 813 |
Hurwith, Benjamin | (New) Strand Theatre | 1846-47 | 766 |
Husselbee, Thomas | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1862-65 | 878 |
Hutchin, Alfred | Camel PH | 1891 | 128 |
Hutchins, George | Load of Hay PH | 1876-77 | 460 |
Hutchins, William John | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1880-81 | 869 |
Hutter, William Mathias | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1928-33 | 243 |
Hutton, John | Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1880 [refused licence] | 602 |
Hutton, William | Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1911-12 | 303 |
Huxley, James | Northampton Arms PH | 1868-69 | 529 |
Huxley, James Thomas | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1902-03 | 508 |
Hyams, Hyman | Canterbury Th. of Varieties / MH | 1921-26 | 129 |
Hyams, Jessie, Mrs. | Canterbury Th. of Varieties / MH | 1925-28 | 129 |
Hyams, Sid | Canterbury Music Hall | 1940-42 | 129 |
Hyde, Charles Frederick | Island Queen PH | 1885-88 | 399 |
Hyde, William | Baring MH | 1879-85 | 48 |
Hylton, Jack | Adelphi Theatre | 1943-after 50 | 6 |
Ibbetson, Ilford | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1895-1925 | 552 |
South London Palace of Varieties | 1908-[?]32 | 751 | |
Chelsea Palace | 1910-31 | 144 | |
Regent Theatre [Euston Theatre etc.] (King’s Cross) | 1911-25 | 656 | |
Metropolitan Theatre | 1911-32 | 493 | |
Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1912-32 | 267 | |
Tivoli Music Hall | 1915-23 | 813 | |
Ireland, Charles | Royal Edward PH | 1867-70 | 682 |
Ireland, Charlotte | Duke of Kent PH | 1863 | 232 |
this name crossed out in pencil | 1864 | ||
Irving, Henry | Lyceum Theatre | 1878-99 | 476 |
Irving, Henry Brodribb | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1908-09 | 725 |
Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1909-11 | 626 | |
Itter, Frederich | Black Horse & Windmill PH | 1862-63 | 82 |
Jacks, William Henry | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1886-88 | 753 |
Jackson, Alexander Matthew | Rising Sun PH (Fulham) | 1859-63 | 661 |
White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1863-64 | 869 | |
Jackson, Alfred | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1856-57 | 690 |
Jackson, Elizabeth Emma | Swiss Cottage PH (Hackney) | 1867-71 | 787 |
Jackson, George | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1854-58 | 42 |
Jackson, George | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1884-86 | 636 |
Jackson, James John | Swiss Cottage PH (Hackney) | 1866-67 | 787 |
Jackson, Walter | Queen’s Park Hall | 1890-96 | 634 |
Jagels, Mary Ann | New Clown PH | 1877-88 | 515 |
Jagels, Philip | New Clown PH | 1861-77 | 515 |
James, Charles James | City of London Theatre | 1843-44 | 156 |
Queens Theatre [later Pr. of Wales Th.] | 1843-69 | 717 | |
. . Wilton, Marie and | Prince of Wales Theatre [later rebuilt as Scala Th.] | 1869-71 | . . |
. . Bancroft, Sir Squire Bancroft | . . | 1871-75 | . . |
James, David | Opera Comique | 1885 | 550 |
James, David, Thorn(e),Thomas, Montague, Henry James, | Vaudeville Theatre | 1870-71 | 830 |
Thorn, Thomas, James, David and | . . | 1871-81 | . . |
James, Harriet | Sekforde Arms PH | 1871-74 | 720 |
James, Henry | Windmill PH | 1862-63 | 888 |
James, Henry | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1876-77 | 63 |
James, John Samuel | Old Dundee Arms PH | 1854-58 | 537 |
James, John Selby Nesbitt | Camel PH | 1882-83 | 128 |
James, Lewis | Windsor Castle PH (Finsbury) | 1869-77 | 892 [1877, no appearance at licensing meeting] |
James. Phoebe Ann | Windmill PH | 1863-75 | 888 |
James, William Lamprey | Windsor Castle PH (Finsbury) | 1865-69 | 892 |
Jandrell, Richard | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1877-78 | 63 |
Jarman, Edwin | Wolverley Arms PH | 1860-62 | 897 [1862, licence refused] |
Jarrett, Richard William | Albion Hall | 1887-88 | 11 |
Jarvis, Charles John | Devonshire Arms PH | 1874-75 | 214 |
Jarvis, William Lee | Talma PH | 1866-68 | 789 |
Jay, John, Barton, William and Dodd, Henry | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1854-55 | 673 |
Jay, John Herbert | Ambassadors’ Theatre | 1913-33, 1937-40, 1941- after 50 | 25 |
Embassy Theatre | 1928-?35 | 265 | |
Kingsway Theatre | 1938-41 | 443 [1941 “not to be relicensed owing to war damage”] | |
Jefferies, Edward Ambrose | Baring MH | 1885-86 | 48 |
Jenkins, Thomas | Joseph and Leslie Bloom and Holloway Empire | 1947 | 380 [trading as Bloom Bros.] |
Jennings, Harriet Lucy | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1890 | 877 |
Jennings, John | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1890 | 877 |
Jennings, John Henry | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1876-92 | 552 |
Jennings, Thomas | Earl Grey PH | 1873-90 | 250 |
Jennings, Thomas John | Westminster Temperance Hall | 1883-86 | 856 |
Jerrard, Samuel John | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1869-71 | 342 |
Jessup, George | King’s Arms PH (St. Clement Danes) | 1861 | 425 |
Jex, John Jacob | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1879-82 | 100 |
Job, Charles | Canterbury PH (Woolwich) | 1857-60[?] | 130 |
Job, James | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1865-80 | 277 |
Johns, Henry | Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1880-84 | 381 [1884 licence refused] |
Johns, William Harris | Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1870-72 | 839 |
Johnson, Alfred | Bridge House PH | 1874-77 | 96 |
Johnson, Alfred George | Camel PH | 1877-78 | 129 |
Johnson, Charles | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1860-65 | 838 |
Johnson, Edward Barker | Bird Cage PH | 1853-54 | 71 |
Johnson, Frederick | Duke of Connaught’s Coffee Tavern / Royal Assembly Rooms | 1881-1902 | 229 |
Johnson, Fulcher | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1874-77 | 832 |
Johnson, James | Grasshopper PH | 1861-67 | 334 |
Johnson, James | Earl of Ellesmere PH | 1879-85 | 254 |
Johnson, James | Mitford Castle PH | 1897-98 | 497 |
Johnson, John | Three Colts PH (Hackney) | 1864-66 | 798 |
Johnson, John and | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1843-44 | 560 |
Lee, Richard Nelson | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1844-48 | 740 |
City of London Theatre | 1848-63 | 156 | |
Johnson, Sarah | Tysen Arms PH | 1848-57 | 826 |
Johnson, Sarah Susannah | Grasshopper PH | 1867-74 | 334 |
Johnston, Charles Archibald | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1882-84 | 878 [1884, licence refused} |
Johnstone-Douglas, Walter Henry George | Webber-Douglas Theatre [Chanticleer Th. / Webber-Douglas School] | 1937-40 | 143 |
Jolliffe, James William | Salmon and Compasses PH | 1848-50 | 714 |
Jones, Arthur | Sportsman PH | 1884-89 | 755 |
Jones, Edward | Blue Anchor PH (Wapping) | 1857-67 | 85 |
Jones, George | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1874-75 | 100 |
Jones, George James | White Bear PH | 1886-87 | 860 |
Jones, George Oliver | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1874-80 | 680 |
Jones, James | Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1853-69 | 140 |
Jones, John | Three Jolly Gardeners PH | 1852-57 | 809 |
Jones, John | Waggon and Horse PH | 1868-69, 1872-75 | 843 |
Jones, John | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1876-90 | 162 |
Jones, John Andrew | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1848-51 | 397 |
Jones, Thomas | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1854-58 | 284 |
Jones, Thomas | George PH (Finsbury) | 1867-69 | 304 [1869, licence refused] |
Jones, Thomas George | White Hart PH (Bethnal Green) | 1860-62 | 862 |
Jones, Thomas Lloyd | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1857-60 | 203 |
Jones, William | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1848-57 | 783 |
Jones, William | Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1869-73 | 140 |
Jordan, Harry | Moore Arms PH | 1883-88 | 502 |
Jordan, James Joseph | Yorkshire Grey PH | 1855-58 | 909 |
Josephs, Fanny | Duke’s Theatre [Royal Holborn Th., Mirror Th., etc.] | 1868-69 | 244 |
Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1869-70 | 316 | |
Olympic Theatre 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1879-80 | 549 | |
Joyce, Walter, and Field, William Ridewood | Royal Holborn Theatre | 1874 | 244 |
Jull, Sarah | Northampton Arms PH | 1864-65 | 529 |
Hare Music Hall and PH | 1873-76 | 365 | |
Jullien, Louis | Lyceum Theatre | 1858 | 476 |
Junge, Friederich | Castle PH (Whitechapel) | 1851-55 | 139 |
Kaimens, Gerhard | Castle PH (Whitechapel) | 1855-63 | 139 |
Kalber | see ‹ Calver, George Frederick | ||
Kanssen, Theodore Metropolitan & Provincial | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1937-38 | 363 |
. . and Cinematograph Theatres Ltd | Kilburn Empire | 1937-38 | 414 |
Kay, John Charles | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1864-66 | 408 |
Kay, John Charles | Manor House | 1871-72 | 484 |
Keable, Samuel | Spread Eagle PH | 1867-72 | 756 |
Kean, Charles | Princess’s Theatre (1st building) | 1852-59 . . | |
and Keeley, Robert | . . | 1850-52 | 616 |
Keeble, John | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1883-85 | 719 |
Keeley, Mary Anne | Lyceum Theatre | 1844-47 | 476 |
Keeley, Robert Kean, Charles and | Princess’s Theatre (1st building) | 1850-52 | 616 |
Keen, Thomas | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1866-72 | 100 |
Keith, William | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1875-76 | 102 |
Keitley, Percival | Royal Court Theatre | 1919-21 | 679 |
Kelday, Arthur and Davies, William | Pied Bull PH | 1870-71 | 582 |
Kelly, George John | Duke of Richmond PH | 1876-78 | 233 |
Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1879-80 | 102 | |
Kelly, H. – with George Forbes and E.A. Chaston trade assignees of Weston, Edward [bankrupt] | Bedford MH | 1868-70 | 58 |
Kelly, Miss Frances Maria | Miss Kelly’s Theatre (Soho) [ later Royalty Theatre, etc.] | 1845-50 | 699 |
Kelly, Peter | Surrey Canal PH | 1853-54 | 779 |
Kelly, William Wallace | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1892 | 616 |
Kelso, Andrew George | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1885-86 | 392 [1886, application withdrawn] |
Kemble, John Philip [Manager] | Theatre Royal, Covent Garden | 1809- ? | 182 A patent theatre, therefore not licensed |
Kembrey, John | Britannia MH (Blackfriars Rd., Southwark) | 1885-86 | 97 [closed because of cock-fighting] |
Kemp, Robert | Duke of Richmond PH | 1890 | 233 [Nov. 1890, not relicensed] |
Kempshall, John | Queen’s Arms PH (Paddington) | 1851-63 | 630 |
Kendal, William Hunter and Hare, John | St. James’s Theatre | 1879-88 | 705 |
Kendall, Joseph | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1882-84 | 408 |
Kendrill, Frank Daniel | Scala Theatre | 1922-23 | 717 |
Kerchner, George Frederick | Alwyne Castle PH | 1855-c.61 | 24 |
Kerridge, Catherine | White Raven PH | 1851-60 | 879 |
Kerridge, George | White Raven PH | 1850-51 | 879 |
Kerston, John | White Swan PH (Shadwell) | 1875-80 | 882 |
Kesterton, William Plank | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1875-78 | 654 |
Kettle, Harry | Island Queen PH | 1875-78 | 399 |
Key, William Wilce [?Wilse] | Gipsy Queen PH | 1874-75 | 310 |
Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1877-78 | 838 | |
Keymer, Abraham | Approach PH | 1861-63 | 34 |
Hare Music Hall and PH | 1863-73 | 365 | |
Keymer, James | King’s Arms PH (Hackney) | 1861-69 | 429 |
Keymer, Robert Samuel and Clewley, James | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1867-68 | 15 |
Kibble, Thomas | King’s Head PH (Knightsbridge) | 1854-58 | 439 |
Kift, John | Rose and Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1854-63 | 667 |
Killick, Charles Egerton | The Playhouse | 1935-42 | 588 |
Killingsworth, James | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1880-81 | 22 |
Kindred, Alfred | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1891-93 | 323 |
King, Benjamin | Two Brewers PH (Westminster) | 1866-85 | 824 |
King, Edward | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1908 | 560 |
King, George | Windsor Castle PH (Finsbury) | 1856-61 | 892 |
King, George Alexander | Royal Standard PH (Kingsland Road) | 1854-56 | 694 |
Royal Standard PH (Bethnal Green) | 1854-58 | 693 | |
King, Henry | New Vauxhall Gardens | 1862-64 | 522 |
King, Henry | Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1865-68 | 381 |
King, Henry | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1886-89 | 277 [application to LCC withdrawn by Henry King, Nov. 1889] |
King, Henry John and Fox, Richard | Laurel Tree PH | 1860-62 | 450 |
King, John | Crown PH (Golden Sq., Westminster) | 1859-61 | 192 |
King, James | Woodman PH (Bethnal Green) | 1852-56 | 900 |
King, Robert | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1876-78 | 98 |
King, William | Duke of Wellington PH (Shepherd Street, Christchurch) | 1867-68 | 236 |
Kinggett, John | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1865-67 | 869 |
Kinggett, John James | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1867-68 | 92 |
Kingston, Gertrude | Little Theatre | 1910-16 | 458 |
Kingwell, Frederick | Mitford Castle PH | 1891-93 | 497 |
Kining, Henry | Duke of Richmond PH | 1881-84 | 233 |
Kipling, William Thomas | Three Horse Shoes PH | 1855-56 | 808 |
Kirby, George | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1852-54 | 445 |
Kirby, William Asher | White Lion PH (Woolwich) | 1877-80 | 875 |
Kirchhoff, William | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1870-72 | 601 |
Kirk, Frank | Dalston Colosseum [Dalston Theatre] | 1894 & 1895 | 208 [provisional licences] |
Kirk, James | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1892 | 552 |
Kirk, James | Variety Theatre [Harwood’s MH, etc.] (Shoreditch) | 1896 | 829 |
Kirk, William Clark | Washington Music Hall [Battersea Palace] | 1899-1901 | 51 |
Kirkham, George, and Briggs, Alfred Herbert [Trustees of the Will of John Lancaster] | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1905 | 725 |
Kirkham, G.W.C. and Briggs, Alfred Henry [sic] | . . | 1906-07 | . . |
Kirkley, George | Waterloo Hero PH | 1883-84 | 846 [licence refused as it had not been used for two years] |
Kisler, Elizabeth | White Hart PH (Whitechapel) | 1859-61 | 866 |
Kisler, Jacob | Prince of Orange PH | 1854-56 | 600 |
Kitchin, Thomas | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1862-65 | 277 |
Kitching, Charles | Trafalgar PH | 1873-74 | 816 |
Kite, Thomas | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) Street, William Stafford and [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1870-71 | 284 |
Kittle, Thomas | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1877 | 22 |
Knifton, Otto | Chelsea Palace | 1942-after 50 | 144 |
Knight, Henry Whithey | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1870-72 | 65 |
Knight, Nicholas | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Millwall) | 1861-64 | 398 |
Knight, William Josiah | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1875-79 | 86 |
Knights, Alfred | Tufnell Arms PH | 1884-86 | 821 |
Knights, Joseph | Winchester Music Hall [Grapes Tavern, Surrey MH, etc.] | 1880-82 | 887 [theatre not in use] |
Knotts, Alfred William | Island Queen PH | 1888 | 399 |
Knowles, Joseph | John Bull PH | 1859-64 | 405 |
Krappen, John | Great Eastern PH | 1878-87 | 335 |
Krumm, Charles | White Swan PH (Shadwell) | 1880-82 | 882 |
Kurler, Lewis | Half Moon and Punchbowl PH | 1854-55 | 361 |
Kurtz, Charles Godfrey | Camden Arms PH | 1869-76 | 126 |
Lacey, Edward and Sanders, Frederick | Philharmonic Hall | 1860-64 | 400 |
Lacey, Henry Richard | Royal Marylebone Th./Royal Alfred Th. [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1868-69 | 853 |
La Fargue, Frederic | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1884-85 | 375 |
Lake, Arthur | Morpeth Castle PH | 1858-60 | 504 |
Lake, Henry George | Middlesex MH | 1867-75 | 896 |
Metropolitan Music Hall | 1879-88, 1892-93 | 493 | |
Lake, Mrs. Jessie | Collins’ Music Hall | 1940-41 | 168 |
Lake, Lewis Hy. Arthur | Collins’ Music Hall | 1939-[after]41 | 168 |
Lake, William James | Metropolitan Music Hall | 1888-92 | 493 |
Lamb, Charles | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1876-79 | 65 |
Lamb, Henry Saunders | Nag’s Head PH (Westminster) | 1859-62 | 510 [1862 licence refused as licensed to sell spirits by Excise] |
Lambert, William Edmonds | Ship PH (Mile End) | 1860-61 | 734 |
Lancaster, John | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1888-89, 1890-91 | 725 |
[Trustees of the Will of the above] Briggs, Alfred Herbert and Kirkham, George] | . . | 1905, [?] 1906-07 | . . |
Lancefield, George | York and Albany PH | 1862-69 | 907 |
Land, Elijah Evans | Hare and Hounds PH (St.Pancras) | 1852-56 | 366 |
Lander, Frederick Charles | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1935-39 | 330 |
Lane, John | Jack Straw’s Castle PH | 1876-79, 1880-[?] | 402 |
Lane, Joseph Edwin | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1882-84 | 14 |
Lane, Samuel | Union Saloon [?] | 827 | |
Britannia Saloon / Britannia Theatre | 1843-71 | 105 | |
Lane, (Mrs.) Sarah Haycraft | Britannia Theatre | 1871-99 | 105 |
Langdon, Thomas Anthony | Duke of Richmond PH | 1865-66 | 233 |
Langenscheid, Charles William | Red Lion and Spread Eagle PH | 1859-60 | 653 |
Langham, Joseph | Montpelier Tavern | 1867-68 | 501 |
Langley, Henry | London Opera House / National Th. of England [Stoll Theatre] | 1914-15 | 764 |
Langton, Joseph David | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1917 [on death of Tree] | 375 |
Langtry, Lily | St. James’s Theatre | 1890 | 705 |
Lanham, Joseph | Camden Arms PH | 1852-65 | 126 |
Lankeman, Albert | Lebeck’s Head PH | 1854-57 | 452 |
Lankenau (?), Emma Mahala | Lebeck’s Head PH | 1857-62 | 452 |
Lansdowne, Thomas | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1878-80 | 191 |
Larsen, Augusta | Jolly Sailor PH (Radcliffe Highway) | 1879-81 | 410 |
Lart, John | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1888 | 316 |
. . and Willard, Edward | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1889-90 | 725 |
Lauder, James | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1868-69 | 678 |
Lauder, Robert | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | ?1866-68 | 678 [records from 1861-65 missing] |
Laurance, Henry | St. James’s Theatre | 1877 | 705 |
Laurance, Stuart | Balham Hippodrome | 1923-[?]35 | 46 |
Laurence, Charles Hillary | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1884-86 | 100 |
Laurent, Charles Emile [?] | Ancient Hall of Rome [Trocadero Music Hall] | 1850-57 | 819 |
Laurent, Emile | Lyceum Theatre | 1860 | 476 |
Laurent, Henry | Philharmonic Rooms (St. Marylebone) | 1857-58 | 574 |
Laurillard, Edward | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1915 | 607 |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1917-20 | 725 | |
Piccadilly Theatre | 1928-32 | 581 | |
Laurillard, Edward | Winter Garden Theatre | 1919-21 | 896 |
. . and Grossmith, George [Jnr] | Adelphi Theatre | 1920-21 | 6 |
Apollo Theatre | 1920-21 | 33 | |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1920-21 | 296 | |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1920-21 | 725 | |
Lavers, Charles James | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1869-71 | 773 |
Law, Charles | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1864-65 | 102 |
Lawford, John Ecles | Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1849-51 | 140 |
Lawrence, Arthur Leonard | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1880-81 | 847 |
Lawrence, Ellen Kate | Bishop Bonner PH | 1879-80 | 72 |
Lawrence, Erasmus | City Arms PH | 1854-65 | 153 |
Lawrence, Harold Walter | Embassy Theatre | 1935-36 | 265 |
Lawrence, Richard | (New) Strand Theatre | 1843-44 | 766 |
Lawrence, William | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1879-90 | 876 |
Laws, Mr. [manager] | Deptford Theatre [Royal Deptford Theatre] | 1842-53 | 213 |
Lawson, Cissie | Camberwell Empire | 1911-14 | 123 |
Lawson, John Ennis | Camberwell Empire | 1914-18 | 123 |
Lawson, Peter | Jolly Sailor PH (Radcliffe Highway) | 1865-79 | 410 |
Layborn, Thomas | George PH (Shoreditch) | 1873-79 | 305 |
Lazarus, Maria and Lewis | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1876-77 | 430 |
Leach, Augustus | Variety Theatre [Harwood’s MH, etc.] | ||
[and see LEECH] | (Shoreditch) | 1889-96 | 829 |
Leach, Charles | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1878-86 | 673 |
Leach. Leopold | Washington Music Hall [Battersea Palace] | 1901-02 | 51 |
Leader, F[rederick] Christopher | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1876-77 | 22 |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1883-84 | 375 | |
League, Richard | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1861-63 | 162 |
Leder, Charles | Helvetia Music Hall | 1880-84 | 372 |
Ledger, Martin Saint | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1858-61 | 42 |
Lee, Henry John | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1864 [licence refused] | 673 |
Lee, James | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1888 | 753 [Nov. 1889, licence refused] |
Lee, James Alfred | Running Horse PH | 1872-74 | 700 |
Lee, James Langdon | Dalston Theatre | 1914-19 | 208 |
Lee, Richard Nelson | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1843-44 | 560 |
. . and Johnson, John | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1844-48 | 740 |
City of London Theatre | 1848-63 | 156 | |
Lee, Richard Nelson | City of London Theatre | 1863-68 | 156 |
Lee, Thomas | Beckford’s Head PH | 1851-54 | 56 |
Adam & Eve PH (Holborn) | 1854-55 | 2 | |
Lee, William | Camel PH | 1884-85 | 128 |
Leech, Augustus Frederick [see also: Leach] | Godfrey’s Music Hall [Castle Music Hall] | 1889 [licence retained] | 136 |
Leech, George | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1875-77 | 832 |
Lees, Frank | Tufnell Park Hotel (Tufnell Arms PH) | 1890-98 | 821 |
Leese, Alexander Jackson | Eastern Empire [Bow Palace] | 1895-99 | 92 |
Leftwich, Joseph John | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1877-78 | 241 |
Leggett, Alfred | Chequers PH | 1876-77 | 145 |
Leighton, Caroline | Bird Cage PH | 1858-62 | 71 |
Leigh, John Highfield | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1899-1900, 1915-17 | 607 |
Savoy Theatre (1st building) | 1904-06 | 716 | |
Royal Court Theatre | 1905-16 | 679 | |
Leighton, John | Bird Cage PH | 1854-58 | 71 |
Le Maitre, Harriet | Baxter Arms PH | 1877-78 | 54 |
le Neve, Sutton | Earl Grey PH | 1855-57 | 250 |
Leonard, Charles | Cross Keys Coffee Tavern | 1882-83 | 189 |
Red Boot Coffee Tavern | 1882-83 | 642 | |
Temple Arms Coffee Tavern | 1882-83 | 795 | |
Wallace Arms PH | 1882-83 | 844 | |
Dick Whittington Coffee Tavern | 1882-99 | 216 | |
Phoenix Coffee Tavern (Paddington) | 1890-92 | 575 | |
Leonard, Herbert and Conquest, George, Jnr | Terriss’ Theatre [Rotherhithe Hippodrome] | 1900-01 | 674 |
Leslie, Henry; Steele, Charles and Norton, Washington | Opera Comique | 1870-71 | 550 |
Leslie, Henry John | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1889-90 | 375 |
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1890 | 478 | |
Lestocq, Boileau Wooldridge a.k.a Lestocq, William | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1915-16 | 243 |
Levenston, Michael | Trafalgar Square Theatre [Duke of York’s Theatre] | 1892 | 243 |
Duke of York’s Theatre | 1896 | 243 [application, by ML, on behalf of St.Martin’s Syndicate Ltd. not granted as he was bankrupt] | |
Levite, Louis | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1873-74 | 654 |
Levy, Henry | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1855-59 | 430 |
Levy, Henry | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1887-[?89] | 445 |
Levy, Isaac | White Hart PH (Whitechapel) | 1854-58 | 866 |
Levy, Isaac | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1890 | 279 |
Levy, Jose Gerald | Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1919 | 765 |
Little Theatre | 1920-36 | 458 | |
. . and Dett, Thomas | Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1916-19 | 765 |
Levy, Lawrence | Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 2nd building | 1854-64, 1867-68 | 300 |
Lewin, George | Golden Lion PH | 1861-64 | 322 |
Lewis, Charles Carter | Duke of Cornwall PH (Deptford) | 1852-54 | 230 |
King’s Arms PH (Greenwich) | 1854-58 | 426 | |
Lewis, Charles Cecil Courtney | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1937 | 477 |
Lewis, Giles | Camel PH | 1869-70 | 129 |
Lewis, Henry James | Crooked Billet PH | 1873-79 | 187 |
Lewis, John | Crooked Billet PH | 1854-73 | 187 |
Lewis, John Idris and B. & J. Theatres Ltd | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1938-39 | 454 |
Lewis, Richard | Flora Gardens | 1853-55 | 280 |
Lewis, William | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1887-91 | 678 |
Lewis, William James | Earl of Aberdeen PH (Hoxton) | 1855-57 | 251 |
Leyton, Stanley | (Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1923-24 | 677 |
Libert, Augustine Albertine | Pied Horse PH | 1865-67 | 583 |
Licence, James | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1874-76 | 80 |
Liles, Charles Edgar | Dalston Colosseum [Dalston Theatre] | 1896 & 1897 | 208 [provisional licences] |
Lilley, James | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1879-80 | 438 |
Camel PH | 1881-82 | 128 | |
Lindsay, James Kenneth | Westminster Theatre | 1946-? | 854 |
Lindsay, William | Seven Stars PH | 1866-71 | 722 |
Lindus, Henry William | Princess’s Theatre (1st building) | 1850-52 | 616 |
Linford, George Robert | Three Wheatsheaves PH | 1866-68 | 812 |
Linforth, William Styles | John Bull PH | 1880-81 | 405 |
Ling, George and Palmer, George | Great Central Hall [City of London Th.] | 1874-87 | 156 |
Linton, James | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1859-69 | 345 |
Lion, Leon Marks | Wyndham’s Theatre | 1927-31 | 905 |
The Playhouse | 1933-35 | 588 | |
Liscoe, George Thomas | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1864-68 | 98 |
Liston, William Henry | Queen’s Theatre (Long Acre) | 1868-69 | 623 |
Olympic Theatre 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1869-72 | 549 | |
Litkey, John Sampson | `Park PH | 1870-73 | 556 |
Littler, Agnes Mary, Mrs. | Royal Artillery Theatre and Opera House | 1909-40 | 676 [lessee apparently licensed from 1926] |
Littler, Emile | Casino Theatre [Prince Edward Theatre] | 1946-47 | 135 |
Littler, Emile and Arnold, Tom | Palace Theatre | 1947-[?] | 554 |
Casino Theatre [Prince Edward Theatre] | 1947-50 and after | 135 | |
Cambridge Theatre | 1950 and after | 125 | |
Littler, Frank Rollison | Kingsway Theatre | 1916-36 | 443 |
Ambassadors’ Theatre | 1933-37 | 25 | |
Littler, Prince | London Coliseum | 1942-? | 461 |
Hackney Empire | 1942-? | 359 | |
Stoll Theatre [London Opera House, etc.] | 1942-? | 764 | |
Cambridge Theatre | 1943-47 | 125 | |
Apollo Theatre | 1943- after 50 | 33 | |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1943 (through 1950) | 375 | |
St. James’s Theatre | 1943 (through 1950) | 705 | |
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1943-? | 478 | |
Phoenix Theatre (Charing Cross Road) | 1944- after 50 | 580 | |
Litton, Marie | Belgravia Theatre [New Chelsea Theatre / Court Theatre] | 1871-75, 1881 | 181 |
St. James’s Theatre | 1875-76 | 705 | |
Imperial Theatre [formerly (Royal) Aquarium Theatre] | 1879-80 | 396 | |
Llewellin, Edwin | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1866-67 | 80 |
Lloyd, Jessey | Bishop Bonner PH | 1867-70 | 72 |
Lloyd, Thomas | Barley Mow PH | 1851-52 | 49 |
[? same] | Approach PH | 1868-69 | 34 |
Lloyd, William | Bishop Bonner PH | 1865-67 | 72 |
Loader, Alfred McLeod | Aldwych Theatre | 1912-15 | 17 |
Lock, Charlotte Moor | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1861-66 | 356 |
Lock, Frederick | Westminster Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1866-74 | 855 |
Lock, Henry | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1866-70 | 356 |
Lock, William | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1854-61 | 356 |
Lockwood, Edmund | Broadway Th. | 1903-05 | 109 |
Lockwood, Edmund and Mouillot, Frederick | Brixton Theatre | 1901-05 | 108 |
Loibl, Emil | London Pavilion (Tichborne St.) | 1860-66, 1874-79 | |
. . and Sonhammer, Charles | . . | 1866-74 | 464 |
Lole, Peter and Holloway, Jeremiah | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1863-64 | 260 |
Lomax, George Herbert | White Lion PH (Woolwich) | 1872-74 | 875 |
Longden, Henry | Westminster Temperance Hall | 1882-83 | 856 |
Lonsdale, Henry French | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1861-64 | 173 |
Loomis, George | King and Prince of Wales PH | 1851-58 | 416 |
Loosemore, Ann | Odell Arms PH | 1869-70 | 531 |
Lord, Charles | Salmon and Ball PH | 1848-51 | 713 |
Love, Henry Samuel | Talbot PH | 1859-60 | 788 |
Lovegrove, Frederick | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1884-85 | 92 |
Lovegrove, Henry Churchill | Royal Pavilion [North Woolwich Gardens and Theatre, etc.] | 1851-52 | 691 |
Lovejoy, Alexander Frederick | Lovejoy’s MH [Rosemary Branch MH, Peckham Th. of Varieties, etc.] | 1878-97 | 564 |
Lovejoy, Walter Alfred | Lovejoy’s MH [Rosemary Branch MH, Peckham Th. of Varieties, etc.] | 1897 | 564 |
Lovell, George | Three Colts PH (Hackney) | 1872-75 | 798 [1875, not licensed, police report that Lovell fined for keeping house open at prohibited hours] Pitman’s Arm’s PH |
Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1877-78 | 392 | |
Lovell, Thomas Barlow | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1867-68 | 878 |
Lovell, William and Bonner, George | Britannia Saloon [Royal French Circus & -] 1856-60 | 104 | |
Loveluck, George | Red Lion PH (Greenwich) | 1857-61 | 647 |
Loveridge, Alfred | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1885-86 | 853 |
Loveridge, George Augustus and Loveridge, Alfred | . . | 1883-85 | . . |
Loveridge, John | . . | 1850 | . . |
Lovesay, William (Lovesy) | Seven Stars PH | 1880-84 | 722 |
Lovesey, Charles Warren | Broadway Th. | 1917-18, 1920-21 | 109 |
Lovesy, see: Lovesay, William (above) | |||
Lovett, Daniel | Bedford Arms Tavern & Tea Garden | 1852-56 | 58 |
Lownds, Thomas Henry | Magpie and Stump PH | 1881-82 | 481 |
Lowenfeld, Henry | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1893-98 | 607 |
Apollo Theatre | 1901-04 | 33 | |
Lowson, Joan [k/a Luxton, Joan] | Children’s Theatre | 1927-31 | 151 |
Lucas, Benjamin Pearce | Grasshopper PH | 1879-83 | 334 [1883, licence refused as seldom used] |
New Bedford Th. / Palace of Varieties | 1899-1920 | 58 | |
Lucette, Catherine | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1862-63 | 702 |
Ludby, Frederic | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1856-63 | 863 |
Ludgate, Robert Hownam | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1876-78 | 438 |
Lugg, James | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1856-60 | 321 |
Luhke, Friedrich | Duke of Bridgewater PH | 1862-63 | 225 |
Luke, Ernest Stanley | Leicester Square Theatre (of Varieties) | 1939-46 | 453 |
Luker, Henry | Hope Music Hall | 1883-84 | 384 |
Lukes, William Ford | Old Commodore PH (Poplar) | 1863-82 | 534 |
Lumley, Benjamin | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1843-58 [except 52/53] | 375 |
Lumsden, James | Coach and Horses PH (Finsbury) | 1865-67 | 162 |
Lundy, Harry | Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties | 1903 -05 | 376 |
Lunn, Colin John | Bishop Bonner PH | 1896-97 | 72 |
Lusby, William | Lusby’s Music Hall [Eagle PH, Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1874-78 | 494 |
Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) / Foresters Music Hall | 1888-98 | 284 | |
Luxembourg, Victor and Lux Estates Ltd | Royal Court Theatre | 1935-36 | 679 |
Luxenburg [sic], Victor | Phoenix Theatre (Charing Cross Road) | 1932-39 | 580 |
[? Luxemburg] | |||
Luxton, Joan, see: Lowson, Joan | |||
Lynd-Martin, Edward Lancelot | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1908 | 560 |
Lynn, William Alfred | Ridley Arms PH | 1887 | 658 |
Lyon, Arthur Henry | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1878-82 | 76 |
Lyon, Henry Philip | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1856-57 | 851 |
Lyons, Henry | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1886-93 | 508 |
Macaire, James | Falcon PH | 1861-78 | 276 |
Macaire, William | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1867-71, 1873-75 | 437 |
McCann, James | Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 1st building] | 1847 | 549 |
McAvoy, Frederick Walace [sic] | South London Palace of Varieties | 1898-1900 | 751 |
McCluer, C, Arthur | Eagle Tavern MH [Royal Eagle MH] | 1885-87 | 248 |
McCollum, Thomas | New Royal Amphitheatre Charman, William and [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1867-70 | 377 |
Macdermott, Gilbert Hastings | Variety Theatre [Harwood’s MH, etc.] (Shoreditch) | 1896-1901 | 829 |
Foresters Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1898-1902 | 284 | |
South London Palace of Varieties | 1900-02 | 751 | |
MacDermott, Norman | Hampstead Drill Hall / Everyman Theatre | 1921-27 | 274 |
Macdonald, Alexander | Sportsman PH | 1860-62 | 755 |
McDonald Jnr, James | McDonald’s Music hall [Hoxton Hall] | 1866-[?] | 393 [1871 licence refused] |
McDonald, William | Crown PH (Oxford St., Westminster) | 1855-60 | 197 |
MacDough, George Frederick | Holborn Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1874 | 377 |
McFadyen, James Frederick | Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / West London Theatre, etc.] | 1872-73 | 853 |
Mc’Govarin, Thomas | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1882-85 | 430 |
McGuiness, James | Battersea Empire [Battersea Palace] | 1903-07 | 51 |
Mackay, Charles | Castle Music Hall | 1875-82 | 136 |
MacKeeley, James | Sun Music Hall | 1852-54 | 771 |
Mackenzie, Virginia Francis Compton | Kennington Theatre | 1918-19 | 412 |
Mackintosh, William Patrick, | Fulham Theatre [Grand Theatre] | 1917-23 | 329 |
McLallan, George Brunton | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1931-32 | 725 |
McLean, Peter | Pegasus PH | 1872-73 | 566 |
McLellan, George Brinton | Adelphi Theatre | 1930-32 | 6 |
[? McLellen] | Cambridge Theatre | 1931-32 | 125 |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1931-32 | 296 | |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1931-32 | 375 | |
McLellan, George Brixton | Waldorf Theatre | ||
[and see above McLellen/McLallan] | Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1905-06 | 765 |
Macleod, James Polson | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1898-99 | 908 |
Macnaghten, Frank | Palace Th. of Varieties [Battersea Palace] | 1909-12 | 51 |
Foresters Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1904-12 | 284 | |
Macnaghten, Frank William | Eastern Empire / Palace Th., Bow | 1899-1912 | 92 |
McNamara, Edward | Pavilion Gardens [Royal Pavilion / North Woolwich Gardens and Theatre, etc.] | 1857-68 | 691 |
McNeill, William | Fulham Theatre [Grand Theatre] | 1930-31 | 329 |
McPherson, James | Fountain PH (Deptford Broadway [Old Fountain PH and Music Hall] | 1874-88 | 287 |
McSwiney, Justin | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Millwall) | 1886-91 | 398 |
Maddick, Alfred | Lord Raglan Music Hall and PH (Holborn) | 1855-56 | 473 |
Maddick, Edmund Distin | Scala Theatre | 1905-22 | 717 |
Maddox, John Meddex | Princess’s Theatre (1st building) | 1843-50 | 616 |
Madell, Alfred | Freemason’s PH (Holborn) | 1886-90 | 292 |
Mager, Michael [? L]eopold | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1886-87 | 375 |
Magness, William | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1874-75 | 781 |
Maiden, Walter | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1869-73 | 869 |
Maidwell, Thomas John | Trafalgar PH | 1870-73 | 816 |
Maisey, Henry James | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1877-79 | 869 |
Maitland, Cecil | Empire Cinema (Empire Theatre, Leicester Square) | 1946 (through 1950) | 266 |
Maitland, Francis Henry | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1881-84 | 316 |
Major, George | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1862-64 | 392 |
Malchar, Ann | Running Horse PH | 1856-60 | 700 |
Malchar, John | Running Horse PH | 1855 | 700 |
Malet, Sarah | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1873-75 | 784 |
Malone, Joseph Archibald Edward | Adelphi Theatre | 1915-16 | 6 |
Malone, Joseph | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1921-26 | 725 [Archibald Edward] |
. . And Grossmith, George [Jnr] | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1923-26 | 375 |
Maltby, Thomas Flower | New Bedford Th. / Palace of Varieties | 1896-99 | 58 |
Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) [Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 1900-06 | 624 | |
Maltby, Thomas Robert Salter | Queen’s Theatre (Poplar) [Apollo MH, Albion/Oriental Th., etc.] | 1898-1906 | 624 |
Malyon, Frederick | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1869-77 | 852 |
Gloucester PH | 1878-91, 1894-1902 | 319 | |
Mandy, James | Lord Raglan MusicHall and PH (Plumstead) | 1881-82 | 472 |
Mann, Charlton and Cooper, William | Adelphi Theatre | 1923-24 | 6 |
Mann, John | South Metropolitan Temperance Hall | 1877-96 | 752 [Nov. 1896, licence refused] |
Mann, Robert | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1863-74 | 781 |
Mannakee, Edward | Hare and Hounds PH (Stoke Newington) | 1851-56 | 367 |
Manning, George | Guy of Warwick PH | 1856-57 | 358 |
Mansell, John Henry | Laurel Tree PH | 1871-74 | 450 |
Mansell, Richard | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1871 | 316 |
Royal Holborn Theatre | 1871 | 244 [25 Sept. To 17 Oct., closed by Sefton Parry as lessee could not carry on] | |
Mansell, William Ernest | Coronet Theatre | 1912 | 178 |
Camden Theatre | 1912-13 | 127 | |
Mansell, William Lauderdale | Lyceum Theatre | 1870 | 476 |
Mansfield, George | Baxter Arms PH | 1885 | 54 [not licensed owing to 1878 Act] |
Mansfield, Eugene and Medwin, Charles E.C. | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1867-69 | 448 |
Mansfield, Richard | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1888-89 | 316 |
Mansfield, Thomas | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1857-58 | 851 |
Maple, Eliza | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1895-96 | 757 |
Maple, John Lakin | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1888-95 | 757 |
Maples, Jarvis | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1869-75 | 191 |
Mapleson, James Henry | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1861-66, 1867-82, 1887 | 375 |
Bijou Theatre | 1867-68 | 70 | |
Mapleson, James Henry, Jnr | Lyceum Theatre | 1861 | 476 |
Marchant, John | Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall | 1900-03 | 906 |
Marchment, Alfred Frederick | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1878-79 | 654 |
Marcoso, Richard Edward, and Audio Film Corporation Ltd | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1942-43 | 363 |
Kilburn Varieties Ltd and | Kilburn Empire | 1942-43 | 414 |
Mare, Nathan | Rising Sun PH (St. Pancras) | 1852-61 | 660 |
Margatts, Harry Frank | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1865-67 | 654 |
Markham, Richard James | Three Colts PH (Hackney) | 1868-70 | 798 |
Marler, Sidney | Aldwych Theatre | 1909-10 | 17 |
Camden Theatre | 1910-11 | 127 | |
Marlow, William | Bow MH / Marlow’s MH / Eastern Empire [Bow Palace] | 1890-95 | 92 |
Marrable, Thomas James | Hope PH (Blackmore St., Clare Market) | 1858-59 | 385 |
Marriott, John | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1872-73 | 98 |
Marsden, Henry | Gospel Oak PH | 1857-59 | 327 |
Marsden, James | Turk’s Head and Metropolitan Hotel | 1867-68 | 822 |
Marsden, Thomas | Gospel Oak PH | 1856-57, 1859-64 | 327 |
Mother Shipton PH | 1857-59 | 507 | |
Marsh, Henry John | Green Dragon PH (Poplar High Street) | 1868 [refused licence] | 337 |
Marshall, Georgiana Sophia | Jolly Sailor PH (Radcliffe Highway) | 1857-65 | 410 |
Marshall, Luke James | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1852-68 | 744 |
Marshall, Norman [manager] [theatre club, not licensed] |
Gate Theatre (Villiers St., Charing Cross) | 1925-33 | 301 |
Marshall, Thomas | Duke of Wurtemburg PH | 1849-51 | 238 |
Marshall, Thomas | White Swan PH (Mile End) | 1864-66 | 881 |
Martin, Frederick | Grand Theatre [Streatham Town Hall not municipal building] | 1891-92 | 331 |
Martin, Israel | Apollo MH | 1869-71 | 32 |
Martin, James | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1859-61 | 388 |
Martin, John | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1857-59 | 388 |
Martin, John | Tufnell Arms PH | 1878-84 | 821 |
Tufnell Arms PH | 1878-84 | 821 | |
Martin, John | Hope Music Hall | 1898 | 384 |
Martin, Samuel | Highbury Park PH | 1862-72 | 374 |
Martyn, William Henry | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1878-80 | 601 |
Maskelyne, Edmund Clive | Maskelyne’s Theatre [St. George’s Hall] | 1924-26 | 703 |
Maskelyne, Jasper | Maskelyne’s Theatre [St. George’s Hall] | 1926-30, 1931-33 | 703 |
Maskelyne, John Nevil | St. George’s Hall [Maskelyne’s Theatre] | 1904-11, 1915-17 | 703 |
Maskelyne, Nevil | St. George’s Hall / Maskelyne’s Theatre | 1917-24 | 703 |
Maskelyne, Noel | Maskelyne’s Theatre [St. George’s Hall] | 1926-30 | 703 |
Mason, Frank Thomas | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1883-84 | 323 |
Mason, William Luke | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1880-83 | 323 |
Masters, George | Sekforde Arms PH | 1866-71 | 720 |
Masters, Thomas | Greyhound PH (Islington) | 1869-70 | 348 |
Masters, Thomas | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1895-97 | 323 |
Masters, Thomas | Camberwell Palace | 1910-13 | 124 |
Masters, Thomas Henry | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1910-13 | 363 |
Palladium Theatre [London Palladium] | 1910-13 | 463 | |
Putney Hippodrome [Putney Empire Palace of Varieties] | 1910-13 | 619 | |
Masters, William | Prince of Brunswick PH | 1858-75 | 599 |
Masterson, Albert | Morpeth Castle PH | 1870-72 | 504 |
Mattei, Tito | Lyceum Theatre | 1870 | 476 |
Mattews [sic], Frederick | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1869-71 | 241 |
Matthew, Ann | Queen’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1861-65 | 629 |
Matthews, Albert | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1932-34 | 330 |
Matthews, Albert James | Bedford Th. | 1946-49 | 58 |
Matthews, Charles | Bijou Theatre | 1861 | 70 |
Mathews, Charles James | Lyceum Theatre | 1847-55 | 476 |
Matthews, Frank | St. James’s Theatre | 1862-63 | 705 |
Matt[?h]ews, Frederick | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1869-71 | 241 |
Matthews, George | White Swan PH (Shadwell) | 1851-75 | 882 |
Matthews, George William | Bee Hive PH (King St., Stepney) | 1854-55 | 59 |
Matthews, Thomas | Rose and Crown PH (Drury Lane) | 1854-58 | 668 |
Matthews, Thomas | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1857-60 | 673 |
Maude, Cyril Francis | The Playhouse | 1907-15 | 588 |
Maw, Robert | Stangate MH/Th. [Bower Th.] | 1876-77 | 93 |
Maxted, Albert | Camden Theatre | 1908-12 | 127 |
Maxted, Albert George | Poplar Hippodrome | 1907-11 | 589 |
Maxwell, Arthur Soden | Terry’s Theatre | 1910-? | 796 [licensed as a cinema] |
Maxwell, George Meyer | Rose and Crown PH (Finsbury) | 1877-90 | 666 |
May, Frederick William | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1877-78 | 851 |
May, George | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1880-87 | 863 |
May, Jane Campbell | Builders Arms PH (Isle of Dogs, Poplar) | 1891 | 118 |
Maycock, John Henry | Prince Albert PH (Oxford Road, Islington) | 1868-69 | 593 |
Mayer, Michael Leopold | St. James’s Theatre | 1890-91 | 705 |
Maynard, Charles Cornelius | Baring MH | 1858-60 | 48 |
Meacock, Edmund | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1865-67 | 78 |
Meacock, Robert | Metropolitan Music Hall | 1865-67 | 493 |
Mead, Joseph | Beckford’s Head PH | 1855-56 | 56 |
Mead, Samuel | Cherry Tree PH (Shoreditch) | 1876-90 | 147 |
Mead, Thomas Preston | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1873-74 | 264 |
Meadwell, Frederick James | Tufnell Arms PH | 1886-90 | 821 |
Mearing, Horatio | George the Fourth PH (Regent’s Park) | 1854-58 | 308 |
Red Lion and Spread Eagle PH | 1868-69 | 653 | |
Mears, Edward Charles | Island Queen PH | 1879-85 | 399 |
Measor, George H.P. | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1881-82 | 263 |
Meck, Richard Hayman | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1875-77 | 445 |
Medcalf, Henry | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1877-82 | 526 |
Medcalf, Stephen Ballinger | Peacock PH | 1861-65 | 562 |
Medlock, Harriett A. | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1873-74 | 86 |
Medus, George Smith | Angel and Crown PH (Shoreditch) | 1864-67 | 31 |
Medwin, Charles E.C. | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1869-76 | 448 |
Medwin, Charles E.C. and Mansfield, Eugene | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1867-69 | 448 |
Medworth, Arthur | Rose and Crown PH (Finsbury) | 1875-76 | 666 |
Medworth, Joseph | Helvetia Music Hall | 1858-63 | 372 |
Meecham, Thomas | Woodville Arms PH | 1865-69 | 901 |
Mees, Charles | Pied Horse PH | 1872-74 | 583 |
Mehrtens, Johann | Comet PH | 1862-63 | 171 |
Mehrtens, Sarah Ann | Comet PH | 1863-66 | 171 |
Meier, Ludwig | Prince of Orange PH | 1856-62 | 600 |
Melnotte, Violet | Comedy Theatre | 1884-88 | 170 |
Trafalgar Square Th. [Duke of York’s Th.] | 1893 | 243 | |
Melnotte (Wyatt), Violet and Wyatt, Frank | Trafalgar Theatre [Duke of York’s Theatre] | 1894 | 243 |
Melnotte-Wyatt, Violet | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1916-20, 1922-28, 1933-35 | 243 |
Melville, Alice | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1896-1904 | 740 |
Queen’s Theatre (Battersea) [Park Town Hall & Th., etc.] | 1897 | 625 [Nov. 1897, licence refused as theatre not in use] | |
Melville, Andrew | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1889-96 | 740 |
Bishopsgate Hall | 1890 | 73 | |
Melville, Frederick | Brixton Theatre | 1907-34 | 108 |
Brixton Theatre / Melville Theatre | 1936-38 | 108 | |
Aldwych Theatre | 1910-11 | 17 | |
Lyceum Theatre | 1937-38 | 476 | |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1937-38 | 612 | |
. . Melville, Walter (below) and | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1904-07 | 740 |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1922-37 | 476 | |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1922-34, 1936-37 | 612 | |
Terriss’ Theatre [Rotherhithe Hippodrome] | 1901-07 | 674 | |
Melville, Walter | Lyceum Theatre | 1910-20 | 476 |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1911-19 | 612 | |
. . and Melville, Frederick (above) | (New) Royal Standard Theatre [Shoreditch Olympia, etc.] | 1904-07 | 740 |
Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1922-34, 1936-37 | 612 | |
Terriss’ Theatre [Rotherhithe Hippodrome] | 1901-07 | 674 | |
Lyceum Theatre | 1922-37 | 476 | |
Mercer, Stephen | Royal Crown PH | 1851-52 | 681 |
Merchant, Jacob | Bromley Arms PH (Bow) | 1868-71 | 110 |
Merion, Charles | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1879-80 | 284 |
Meritt, Paul and Conquest, George | Surrey Theatre | 1881-85 | 778 |
Merritt, Charles Malone | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1882-83 | 891 |
Merton, Max | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1907-08 | 560 [for Jewish plays] |
Metcalf, Stephen Ballinger | Manor House | 1876-84 | 484 |
Meyer, Bertie A[lexander] | St. Martin’s Theatre | 1916-19 | 709 |
Cambridge Theatre | 1930-31 | 125 | |
Meyer, Louis | Whitney Theatre / Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Novello Th.] | 1912-15 | 765 |
Meyer, William | Royal Crown PH | 1865-67 | 681 |
Michael, Edward | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1891-93 | 316 |
Michell, Henry | Royal Crown PH | 1852-62 | 681 |
Middleton, Clifford [Receiver] | Cambridge Theatre | 1949-50 | 125 |
Middleton, Samuel | Pied Horse PH | 1874-75 | 583 |
Midgley, George Duke | Comedy Theatre | 1944-48 | 170 |
Midgley, Margaret | Globe PH (St. George in the East) | 1857-68 | 314 [1868, licence refused because of Sunday trading] |
Midgley, Thomas | Globe PH (St. George in the East) | 1855-57 | 314 |
Mihr, Caspar | Half Moon and Punchbowl PH | 1854-63 | 361 [1863, licence refused] |
Milbank, Frederick Acclon | St. James’s Theatre | 1863-64 | 705 |
Miles, James E. | Duke of York PH (King’s Cross) | 1860 | 242 [petition in this name refused] |
Miles, James Edward | Ship PH (Westminster) | 1869-72 | 735 |
Miles, John | Royal Hotel (PH) (Hackney) | 1862-66 | 684 |
Millar, William | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1880-82 | 891 |
Miller, Frederick | Paragon Music Hall [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1899-1909 | 494 |
Miller, Gilbert Heron | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1917-18 | 299 |
St. James’s Theatre | 1919-26 | 705 | |
Miller, Henry | Cumberland Head & Green Gate PH | 1851-60 | 206 |
Miller, Henry Hellyer | Woodman PH (Hoxton, Shoreditch) | 1858-67 | 899 |
Miller, James | White Lion PH / Metropolitan Music Hall | 1863-65 | 493 |
Miller, Mary | Woodman PH (Hoxton, Shoreditch) | 1867-69 | 899 |
Miller, Richard | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1883-84 | 636 |
Miller, Sarah | Percy Arms PH | 1868-69 | 568 |
Miller, William | Benyon Arms PH | 1860-61 | 69 |
Mills, Alexander | Bird Cage PH | 1850-51 | 71 |
Mills, Charles | Offord Arms PH | 1877-83 | 532 |
Mills, Edward | Northampton Arms PH | 1865-68 | 529 |
Mills, Edward | Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | 1875-80 | 141 |
Mills, George | Corunna Music Hall | 1869-71 | 179 |
Mills, Henry | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1863-64 | 673 |
Mills, James | Bromley Arms PH (Bow) | 1875-83 | 110 |
Mills, John | Talma PH | 1870-72 | 789 |
Mills, Matthew | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1859-62 | 878 |
Mills, William | White Horse PH (Finsbury) | 1863-64 | 871 |
Miln, William Hamilton | Surrey Theatre | 1919-21 | 778 |
Milton, Daniel | John Bull PH | 1869-70 | 405 |
Milton, George | Bromley Arms PH (Bow) | 1871-74 | 110 |
Milton, Mayrick-Beaufoy Held | St. George’s Hall | 1898-99 | 703 |
Milward, George Alfred | Milward’s Coffee Tavern and Music Hall | 1882-91 | 496 |
Ming, Thomas | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1874-75 | 869 |
Minton, James Lewis | Bald Faced Stag PH | 1860-71 | 44 |
Mitchell, Alfred James | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1898-1900 | 781 |
Mitchell, Benjamin | Rose and Shamrock PH | 1857-61 | 672 |
Mitchell, Henry and Mitchell, Henry Richard | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1839-48 | 678 |
Mitchell, Henry Richard | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1848-60 | 678 |
[and see “Michell, Henry” above (? spelling error)] | |||
Mitchell, John | St. James’s Theatre | 1843-51, 1851-54 1869 | 705 |
Mitchell, John | Lyceum Theatre | 1871 | 476 |
Mitchell, Louisa | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1860-[?] | 678 [records from 1861-65 missing] |
Mitchell, William Pontin | Percy Arms PH | 1864-68 | 568 |
Mitchelhill, John Percy | Islington Hippodrome / Collins’ Music Hall | 1913-20 | 168 |
Mitchelhill, John Henry [sic] [J..P.] | Duchess Theatre | 1930-38 | 221 |
Moffitt, John | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1900-01 | 616 |
Mogge, Henry | Sir Sidney Smith PH | 1855-63 | 748 |
Molloy, John Edward | Phoenix Hall (Shoreditch) | 1859-63 | 576 |
Monico, Giacomo and | Adelaide Gallery, Th. of Varieties | 1862 | 5 |
Gatti, Agostino | refused licence | ||
Monico, Guiseppe, Gatti, Carlo and Gatti, Giovani | Hungerford Music Hall | 1858-62 | 394 |
Monro, Sarah Elizabeth | Duchess of Kent’s Theatre Borley, Henry Jones and [Barnard’s Th., Woolwich Empire, etc.] | 1890-91 | 902 |
Montague, David | Colosseum (Regent’s Park) | 1850-59 | 170 |
Montague, David and Wood, William | Princess Concert Room | 1851-63 | 614 |
Montague, Henry | Bijou Theatre | 1861 | 70 |
Montague, Henry James | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1871-74 | 316 |
Montague, Henry James, James, David, Thorn, Thomas | Vaudeville Theatre | 1870-71 | 830 |
Montelli, Camile | Opera Comique | 1871-72 | 550 |
Moore, Archibald Patrick | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1835-39 | 243 |
Moore, Edward Cecil | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1902-03 | 697 |
Moore, George | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1878-90 | 80 |
Moore, George Washington | Washington Music Hall [Battersea Palace] | 1890-98 | 51 |
New Battersea Empire [Battersea Palace] | 1902-03 | 51 | |
Battersea Empire [Battersea Palace] | 1907-08 | 51 | |
Moore, Harold (Meed) | Whitehall Theatre | 1942-45 | 884 |
Moore, Henry Josiah | Morpeth Castle PH | 1878-[?]89 | 504 [Nov.1889, licence refused as work not done] |
Moore, James | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1864-66 | 80 |
King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1874-76 | 438 | |
Moore, Mary | see _ Wyndham, Mary | ||
Moore, Robert Alfred | Three Crowns PH (Chelsea) | 1855-57 | 803 |
Moore, Thomas Primus | Windsor Castle PH (Woolwich) | 1891-95 | 895 |
Moore, William | Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1876-78 | 839 |
Moorton, William | Prince of Wales’ Feathers PH (St. Pancras) | 1863-66 | 608 |
[see William Morton below] | |||
Morbey, Charles Joseph | Britannia PH (Wapping) | 1863-64 | 103 |
Moreland, George | Canterbury PH (Woolwich) | 1866[?]-68 | 130 |
Morely-Clarke, L. and S.A. Varieties Ltd | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1947-[?] | 454 |
Morell, Henry Harvey and Waller, Lewis | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1895-96 | 725 |
Morell, Henry Harvey | Kilburn Palace | 1897-1900 | 415 |
Morgan, Albert James | Wellington Hall (Islington) | 1898-1903 | 850 |
Morgan, Arthur and | New Chelsea Theatre Oliver, B. [Belgravia Theatre / Court Theatre] | 1870-71 | 181 |
Morgan, Frederick | White Swan PH (Deptford) | 1878-88 | 880 |
Morgan, George Frederick Hughes | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] 1907-08 | 765 | |
Morgan, Henry | Hope Music Hall | 1865-69 | 384 |
Morgan, James Whisson | Rosemary Branch MH [Lovejoy’s MH, Peckham Th. of Varieties, etc.] | 1876-78 | 564 |
Morgan, John | Brecknock Arms PH | 1852-54 | 94 |
Morgan, John | Kennington Theatre | 1921-25, 1934-35 | 412 |
Morgan, Thomas Lloyd | Tufnell Arms PH | 1877-78 | 821 |
Morgan, William | Cross Keys Coffee Tavern | 1881-82 | 189 |
Red Boot Coffee Tavern | 1881-82 | 642 | |
Temple Arms Coffee Tavern | 1881-82 | 795 | |
Three Cups PH (Fulham) | 1881-82 | 807 | |
Wallace Arms PH | 1881-82 | 844 | |
Morley, Malcolm | Everyman Theatre | 1930-32 | 274 |
Morley, Richard James | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1886-88 | 431 |
Morely-Clarke, L., see: ?Morely-Clarke (above) | |||
Morris, Barney | Griffin Music Hall [London MH, Shoreditch Empire, etc.] | 1891-93 | 739 |
Morris, John | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1859-64 | 298 |
Morris, Louisa Ann | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1883-84 | 442 |
Morris, Richard | William the Fourth PH | 1851-52 | 885 |
Morris, Thomas | Pegasus PH | 1874 [licence refused] | 566 |
Morris, Thomas | Running Horse PH | 1879-81 | 700 |
Morris, Walter Matthew | Bedford MH | 1934-39 | 58 |
Morris, William Jacob | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1882-83 | 442 |
Morrison, Hubert Peter [?Pater] | Palladium Theatre [London Palladium] | 1928-30 | 463 |
Holborn Empire | 1928-30 | 376 | |
Morrison, John | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1864-71 | 173 |
Morritt, Charles | Eden Palace of Varieties / Novelty Theatre | 1892-95 | 443 |
Mortimer, James | Hoxton Hall | 1864-65 | 393 |
Mortimer, Leonard | Mortimer’s Theatre [Variety Theatre] (Shoreditch) | 1907 | 829 |
Morton, Charles | Canterbury Arms PH (Lambeth) / Canterbury Hall | 1848-68 | 129 |
Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1860-69 | 552 | |
Pavilion Gardens [Royal Pavilion / North Woolwich Gardens and Theatre, etc.] | 1868-69 | 691 | |
Philharmonic Hall | 1870-73 | 400 [1871 licence refused] | |
Opera Comique | 1875 [not taken up] | ||
. . | 1876 | 550 | |
Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1877-80 | 22 | |
Royal Connaught Theatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1881 | 377 | |
Tivoli Music Hall | 1893-94 | 813 | |
Morton, Harold | Daly’s Theatre | 1921-26 | 209 |
Morton, John Palmer | Globe PH (Deptford) | 1876-77 | 312 |
Morton, William | Morton’s Theatre | ||
[see William Moorton above] | [Greenwich Theatre, etc. (London Road)] | 1890-1901 | 347 |
Moss, Abraham Charles | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1866-70 | 284 |
Moss, Arthur | Camberwell Palace | 1934-39 | 124 |
Moss, Arthur Stanley | Islington Empire [formerly Grand Theatre] | 1934-39 | 400 |
Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1934-39 | 674 | |
Forum Theatre [as a music hall] | 1935-39 | 286 | |
Bedford MH | 1940-41 | 58 | |
Moss, Frank | King’s Hall [Phoenix Temperance Hall] | 1899-1902 | 420 |
Moss, [Sir] Horace Edward | London Hippodrome | 1899 | 462 [Provisional for first months] |
Finsbury Park Empire | 1911-14 | 278 | |
New Cross Empire [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1912-14 | 516 | |
Broadway Th. | 1912-14 | 109 | |
Motion, Richard William | White Swan PH (Mile End) | 1875-77 | 881 |
Mouillot, Frederick | Broadway Th. | 1905-07 | 109 |
Mouillot, Frederick and Lockwood, Edmund | Brixton Theatre | 1901-05 | 108 |
Mountford, Alfred Charles | Duke of Wellington PH (Drury Lane, Westminster) | 1873-75 | 235 |
Mourgue, William Field | Duke of York PH (Clerkenwell) | 1860-64 | 240 |
Mowbray, Thomas | Mirror Theatre [Royal Holborn Theatre] | 1877-78 | 244 |
Imperial Theatre [formerly (Royal) Aquarium Theatre] | 1885-86 | 396 | |
Mowbray, Thomas Pratt | (Royal) Soho Theatre / | 1852-60, 1860-67, | |
(New)Royalty Theatre | 1870 | 699 | |
Moy, John | Moy’s Music Hall [Royal Standard (Hotel)] | 1848-64 | 834 |
Mudd, Ann Marie | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1896-98 | 757 |
Muddle, Henry | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1875-76 | 15 |
Mulholland, Mrs. Aimee Louise | King’s Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1926-46 | 421 |
Mulholland, John Brennan | King’s Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1903-26 | 421 |
[Trustees] | . . | 1946-48 | 421 |
Mulholland, John Victor | King’s Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1948-[?] | 421 |
Mullet, James | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Mile End) | 1848-63 | 260 |
Mullins, Barry O. Meara | Fox and Cock PH | 1854-55 | 290 |
Muncey, Luke | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1870-76 | 63 |
Munday, Henry James | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1879-80 | 783 |
Munro, Donald | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1905-07 | 560 |
Camberwell Empire | 1907-08 | 123 | |
Munro, Hector | Gatti’s Palace of Varieties (Lambeth) [Gatti’s-over-the-Water, etc.] | 1913-?25 | 303 |
Munro, Isaac | City of Gloucester PH | 1862-64 | 154 |
Munro, James Frederick | Stag PH | 1863-67 | 758 |
Three Colts PH (Hackney) | 1870-72 | 798 | |
Murphy, Frances | Queen’s Arms PH (Plumstead) | 1875-81 | 627 |
Murray, Paul | Comedy Theatre | 1921-22 | 170 |
Murrey, William George | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1863-64 | 784 |
Musgrove, George | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1898-1905 | 725 |
Mussett, William Henry | Sir John Falstaff PH | 1851-53 | 745 |
Myers, Michael | Horns PH (Whitechapel) | 1855-57 | 389 |
Myerscough, Joseph | Royal Hotel (Stepney) | 1865-75 | 685 |
Volunteer PH | 1866-79 | 842 | |
Naismith, William | Phoenix Temperance Hall (Finsbury) | 1868-70 | 579 |
Nathan, Ben | London Opera House [Stoll Theatre, etc.] | 1912-13 | 764 |
Nathan, John Lewis | Novelty Theatre / New Queen’s Theatre | 1886-88 . 1889-91 | 443 |
Nathan, Moss Henry | Gun PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch) | 1870-75 | 356 |
Nation, Joseph | Grange PH | 1869-72 | 332 |
Nation, Marion | Grange PH | 1872-73 | 332 |
Nation, William Hamilton Codrington | Theatre Royal, Astley’s | 1866-69 | 38 |
Royal Holborn Theatre | 1873 | 244 | |
(Royal) Charing Cross Theatre [later Folly / Toole’s Theatre] | 1873-76 | 814 | |
Naylor, Alexander Sharpe | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1877-78 | 325 |
Naylor, Frederick | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1888-91 | 744 |
Naylor, Harriet Sarah | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1876-77 | 352 |
Neagherson, George and Byrmes, Michael | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1889 | 702 |
Neal, Thomas | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1859-61 | 173 |
Neale, Charles William | Angel and Crown PH (Shoreditch) | 1862-64 | 31 |
Neale, Frederick | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1852-56 | 560 |
Elphinstone, James Walker and [destroyed by fire 9.2.1856] | |||
Neall, Robert William | Clay Hall PH | 1877-83 | 160 |
Neary, Alfred | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1885-91 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | see | 739 | |
Neary, George | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1877-82 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | see | 739 | |
Neely, Octavius | Cardinal Wolsey PH | 1866-68 | 132 |
Neeson, William Duncan | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1862-67 | 65 |
Negus, William | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1848-52 | 42 |
Nettlefold, Archibald | Comedy Theatre | 1924-44 | 170 |
Nevard, George | Ordnance Arms PH | 1869-77 | 551 |
Neville, Charles | Baring MH | 1860-63 | 48 |
Neville, Edith | St. Pancras People’s Theatre [Tavistock Little Th.] | 1926-40 | 712 |
Neville, Henry Garside | Olympic Theatre 2nd building (reconstructed) | 1873-79 | 549 |
Neville, J.C. [manager] | Deptford Theatre [Royal Deptford Theatre] | 1853-?57 | 213 |
Neville, Richard | Baring MH | 1863-64 | 48 |
Newber, Thomas | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1886-88 | 411 |
Newholm, William | Pied Bull PH | 1885-87 | 582 |
Newing, John | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1868 | 654 |
Newman, Henry John | Camel PH | 1887-88 | 128 |
Newman, John | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1857-59 | 773 |
Newman, John | Black Eagle PH | 1869-75 | 79 |
Newman, Mathew | Offord Arms PH | 1876 | 532 |
Newman, Richard | Prince Albert PH (Shoreditch) | 1858-61 | 594 |
Newman, William | Prince Regent PH (St. George in the East)) | 1854-62 | 610 |
Newman, William George | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1891 | 877 |
Newnam, Selina Hartry | Montpelier Palace / Assembly Rooms | 1913-15 | 501 |
Newnam, Walter George | Montpelier Palace / Assembly Rooms | 1911-13 | 501 |
Newport, Francis | Royal Hotel (Stepney) | 1887-91 | 685 |
Newsome, James | Holborn Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1875 | 377 |
Newton, Edward | Northumberland Arms PH | 1862-64 | 530 |
Newton, Elizabeth | Wolverley Arms PH | 1856-57 | 897 |
York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1858-63 | 908 | |
Market House PH | 1866-68 | 487 [1868 licence refused owing to sale of malt liquor] | |
Newton, Emily | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1872-73 | 352 |
Newton, John | Rising Sun PH (Fulham) | 1855-59 | 661 |
Newton, Thomas Newell | Wheatsheaf PH (St. Marylebone) | 1851-53 | 859 |
Newton, William | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1871-75 | 173 |
Neyler, Thomas | Railway PH (Woolwich) | 1867-85 | 641 |
Nicholas, John | Queen’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1865-69 | 629 |
Nicholls, Alfred; Preece, F. and [managers] | Globe Theatre [Newington Hall] | 1856 | 315 |
Nicholls, Charles | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1859-61 | 876 |
Nicholls, Thomas | Bishop Bonner PH | 1876-77 | 72 |
Nicholson, Ernest | Hope Music Hall | 1884-85 | 384 |
Nicholson, James | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1880-81 | 904 |
Nicholson, James Dike | Old Swan PH | 1862-66 | 543 |
Nicholson, Renton [Manager] | Cremorne Gardens (pre-licensing) | c. 1840s | 185 |
Nicols, Daniel | Empire Theatre (Leicester Square) | 1885-87 | 266 |
Nind, Henry John | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1872-75 | 898 |
Niner, Randall Joseph | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1875-77 | 325 |
Nobbs, Charles William | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1886-87 | 673 [1887, licence refused as owner convicted of non compliance with requirements of M.B.W.] |
Nolan, Joseph | Battersea Empire [Battersea Palace] | 1908-09 | 51 |
Nolan, William | Walpole Arms PH | 1867-70 | 845 |
Noone, George Edward | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1856-58 | 437 |
Norden, Charles | Load of Hay PH | 1881-82 | 460 |
Norden, Charles | Castle Music Hall | 1883-84 | 136 |
Norman, Charles | Rose and Crown PH (Knightsbridge) | 1862-76 | 670 |
Norris, Albert | Royal Oak PH (Hackney Fields) | 1871-82 | 689 |
Norris, Albert William | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1890 | 80 [licence retained] |
Norris, Joseph | Monarch Temperance Coffee House | 1884-90 | 500 |
Norris, Thomas | Lamb PH (Islington) | 1866-69 | 446 |
North, John | Hare Music Hall and PH | 1876-77 | 365 |
North, John | Sun and Sawyers and Royal Exchange PH | 1883-86 | 774 |
North, Arthur John | Eastnor Castle PH | 1861-62 | 258 |
Norton, Washington, Leslie, Henry and Steele, Charles | Opera Comique | 1870-71 | 550 |
Norton, William Frederick` | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1877-80 | 847 |
Nowlan, William | Waterman’s Arms PH (Woolwich) | 1866-67 | 848 |
Nugent, George William | Three Neats’ Tongues PH | 1864-65 | 811 |
(Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1864-67, 1871-80 | 677 | |
Nunn, Richard Coleman | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1854-55 | 838 |
Nunn, Verrell | Variety Theatre (Shoreditch) | 1870 | 829 |
Nunn(e), Charles Thomas | Percy Arms PH | 1870-75 | 568 |
Nuttall, James | North Pole PH (Islington) | 1865-66 | 527 |
Nye, Mary | Duke of York PH (Clerkenwell) | 1858-59 | 240 |
Nye, Reuben Edward | Duke of York PH (Clerkenwell) | 1854-58 | 240 |
Nye, Patricia Dorothy | Bedford Th. | 1949- after 50 | 58 |
Oakley, William | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1882 [licence refused] | 471 |
O’Connell, Alice | Sekforde Arms PH | 1861 | 720 |
[Official Receiver, see: Vale, John] | |||
Ogden, Charles | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1873-77 | 908 |
Ogilvie, Leslie | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1939-40 | 330 |
Older, George James | Peacock PH | 1881-82 | 562 |
Oliver, Alfred | Hop Pole PH | 1855-60 | 383 |
Oliver, Alfred | Black Bull PH (Southwark) | 1861-64 | 74 |
Oliver, B. and Morgan, Arthur | New Chelsea Theatre [Belgravia Theatre / Court Theatre] | 1870-71 | 181 |
Oliver, Henry George | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1852-55 | 863 |
Wheatsheaf PH and Music Hall (Holborn) | 1855-56 | 858 | |
Oliver, John William | North Pole PH (Islington) | 1866-69 | 527 |
Oliver, Martha | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1867-70 | 699 |
Orchard, Eliza Susan | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1878-95 | 342 |
O’Reilly, George Miles | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1878-91 | 352 |
O’Reilly, Harrington Edgar | Evan’s Music-and-Supper Rooms [Grand Hotel] | 1881-82 | 273 |
Ormsby, George Lindsay | Globe and Pigeons PH [Peabody Arms PH] | 1855-56 | 561 |
Osbaldiston, David Webster | (Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1843-51 | 545 |
Osborn, Henry | Catherine Wheel PH | 1855-57 | 142 |
Osgood, Peter | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1863-66 | 241 |
Osment, Edwin | Windsor Castle Music Hall and PH (Camberwell) | 1888-89 | 890 |
Osmond, George | Grange PH | 1873-74 | 332 |
Oswick, Artie James | Bow Palace | 1919-21 | 92 |
Otten, Lutje | Monarch PH | 1859-61 | 499 |
Ould, Thomas | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1881-85 | 321 [1885, licence refused] |
Overend, John | British Queen PH (St.Pancras) | 1860-62 | 106 |
Owen, James | Sugar Loaf PH (St. George in the East) | 1854-56 | 769 |
Owen, John | Montpelier Tavern | 1854-56 | 501 |
Owen, John Glendower | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1887-89 | 375 |
Owles, Henry | Devonshire Arms PH | 1864-70 | 214 |
Oyler, William | Bridge House PH | 1877-88 | 96 |
Packman, David | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1896 | 298 [licence refused, Nov. ’96] |
Padley, Morria | Queen Victoria PH (Battersea) | 1875-81 | 622 |
Page, Edwin Vine | Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1900-05 | 267 |
Page, George | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1878-83 | 753 |
Page, George Alfred | Queen’s Head PH | 1863-64 | 633 |
Page, George Jones Sagin | (Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1867-71 | 677 |
Page, John | Marylebone Music Hall | 1856-58 | 491 |
Page, Susannah | Gipsy Queen PH | 1874-75 | 310 |
Page, William Baldock | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1852-54 | 42 |
Page, William James | Tufnell Arms PH | 1870-77 | 821 |
Paget, Cecil | Crown Theatre [Peckham Hippodrome / Gaumont Cinema] | 1901-1912 | 563 |
Daly’s Theatre | 1926-37 | 209 | |
Paget, George | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1890-91 | 316 |
Paget, George Thomas Cavendish | (Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1889-94 | 588 |
Paine, Alfred | White Swan PH (Mile End) | 1860-64 | 881 |
Paine, Alfred | Red Deer PH | 1873-78 | 645 |
Paine (Payne), Christopher | King’s Arms PH (Greenwich) | 1851-54 | 426 |
Palmer, Arthur William and Hawkins, John | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1885-87 | 92 |
Palmer, Francis | Eastern Temperance Hall | 1870-73 | 257 |
Palmer, George and Ling, George | Great Central Hall [City of London Th.] | 1874-87 | 156 |
Palmer, George Albert | Lion PH (Islington) | 1861-64 | 456 |
Palmer, Job | Highbury Park PH | 1854-62 | 374 |
Palmer, John | North Pole PH (Islington) | 1862-65 | 527 |
Palmer, William | Adelaide Gallery & MarionetteTheatre | 1857-61 | 5 |
Panckridge, William | Pembroke Arms Coffee Palace [Pembroke Club] | 1878-79 | 567 |
Pannell, William Henry | Royal Foresters Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1898-1902 | 284 |
Variety Theatre / New King’s Theatre (Shoreditch) | 1901-06 | 829 | |
Pape, George Alfred | Mortimer Arms PH | 1866-67 | 505 |
Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1881-84 | 832 | |
Paradise, Alfred | Old Fountain PH | 1860-62 | 538 |
Parfitt, Edward | Sekforde Arms PH | 1851-55 | 720 |
Craven Head PH | 1856-62 | 184 | |
Park, George Robert | Plume’s Music Hall [Mitre Music Hall] | 1898-1901 | 498 |
Parker, Henry William | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1896-99 | 744 [1899, licence refused] |
Parker, John | Victoria PH (Rotherhithe) | 1879-88 | 841 |
Parker, William | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1866-67 | 448 |
Parker, William Joseph | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1854-55 | 234 |
Parkes, George | Lord Raglan Music Hall and PH (Holborn) | 1877-?78 | 473 |
Parkes, George | Temperance Hall / Eastern Alhambra MH and Tanner, William (Shoreditch) | 1870-75 | 793 |
Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1875-80 | 264 | |
Parkes, George | ditto. | 1881-82 | |
Parkins, Thomas | Duke of Cornwall PH | 1851-52 | 230 |
Parnell, Valentine Charles | London Palladium | 1947-? | 463 |
London Hippodrome | 1947-? | 462 | |
Finsbury Park Empire | 1947-? | 278 | |
Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (2nd building) | 1947-? | 607 | |
Victoria Palace | 1948-? | 834 | |
Parr, Frederick | Adam & Eve PH (Clerkenwell) | 1855-56 | 3 |
Parratt, Edward | Lyceum Theatre | 1844 | 476 |
Parravincini, Stefano Arroni | Park Theatre Corbyn, Wardle [Regents Park Th., Alexandra Th., etc.] | 1875-76 | 557 |
Parry, Sefton | Duke’s Theatre [Royal Holborn Th., Mirror Th., etc.] | 1866-68 | 244 |
Theatre Royal Holborn [Duke’ Th., etc.] | 1870-71 | 244 | |
Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1868-69 | 316 | |
Parsons, Alan and Webb, William | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1918-23 | 375 |
Parsons, George | Baxter Arms PH | 1871-72 | 54 |
Parsons, George | St. John’s Wood PH | 1878-79 | 707 |
Parsons, John | Victoria PH (Rotherhithe) | 1873-74 | 841 |
Parsons, James | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1895-?1903 | 342 |
Parsons, Thomas | Britannia PH (Wapping) | 1864-67 | 103 |
Parsons, Thomas | Navy Arms PH | 1875-76 | 512 |
Parsonson, Richard Woodlow | Hole in the Wall PH | 1861-63 | 378 |
Partridge, David Meiklejohn | Duchess of York PH | 1882-83 | 224 |
Pascoe, Vincent Lambert | Globe PH (Deptford) | 1859-(?) | 312 |
Old Fountain PH | 1862-69 | 538 | |
Pasmore, James | Bishop Bonner PH | 1870-74 | 72 |
Passmore, Stanley Joseph | St. James’s Theatre | 1929-32 | 705 |
Paternoster, Charles | Eastnor Castle PH | 1854-58 | 258 |
Paton, Harriette | King’s Arms PH (Kensington) | 1860-72 | 428 |
Patrick. Frank | City of York PH | 1882-90 | 159 |
Paul, Howard | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1881 | 22 |
Pay, Charles | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1873-74 | 325 |
Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1877-78 | 602 | |
Payne, Charles | Prince of Wales’ Feathers PH (St. Pancras) | 1854-63 | 608 |
Payne, Christopher | see _ Paine (above) | ||
Payne, Emma | Rising Sun PH (Fulham) | 1881-[?] | 661 |
Payne, George Adney | Canterbury Hall / Canterbury MH / Canterbury Th. of Varieties | 1883-1909 | 129 |
Regent Theatre [Euston Theatre etc.] (King’s Cross) | 1899 | 656 [provision to 1901] | |
Payne, George Adney | Lusby’s Music Hall [Eagle PH, Crowder, Charles Spencer and Paragon MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1878-83 | 494 |
Payne, Henry | Rising Sun PH (Fulham) | 1877-81 | 661 |
Payne, Thomas | Strand Theatre | 1855-58 | 766 |
Payne, Thomas Henry | Gipsy Queen PH | 1890 | 310 [licence retained] |
Payne, Walter | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1922-27 | 552 |
London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1922-49 | 465 | |
Regent Theatre [Euston Theatre etc.] (King’s Cross) | 1923-32 | 656 | |
South London Palace of Varieties | 1932-41 | 751 [1941, theatre closed by war damage] | |
Empress Th. of Varieties [Empress M.H.] | 1932-49 | 267 | |
Metropolitan Theatre | 1932-49 | 493 | |
Payne, William | Duchess of York PH | 1862-73 | 224 |
South London Palace of Varieties | 1907-08 | 751 | |
Peacock, Ernest Harley | Princess’s Theatre (3rd building) | 1898-99 | 616 |
Peake, Arthur Christopher | Macclesfield Arms PH | 1875-76 | 479 |
Peall, Ernest William Pashley | Canterbury Music Hall | 1929-40 | 129 |
Mile End Empire [Paragon MH, etc.] | 1930-33 | 494 | |
Palladium Theatre / London Palladium | 1930-40 | 463 | |
Camden Hippodrome [Camden Theatre] | 1930-40 | 127 | |
Holborn Empire | 1930-40 | 376 | |
Regent Theatre [Euston Theatre etc.] (King’s Cross) | 1933-37 | 656 | |
Dominion Theatre | 1933-40 | 219 | |
[Secretary, United Picture Theatres Ltd] | Kennington Theatre | 1930-34 | 412 |
Pealling, Thomas William | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1875-77 | 431 |
Pearce, Arthur William | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1921-31, 1932-34 | 20 |
Pearce, John James | Bee Hive PH (King St., Stepney) | 1855-61 | 59 |
Pearce, William George | Queen’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1887-90 | 631 |
Pearson, Gladys Constance, Lady [Cooper, Gladys] | The Playhouse | 1928-33 | 588 |
Pearson, Herbert J. | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1893-95 | 725 |
Pearson, John | Hope PH (Blackmore St., Clare Market) | 1856-57 | 385 |
Peckham, Charles | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1859-[?] | 526 [? to at least 1861, but to no later than 1866, records for 1861-66 missing] |
Peckham, Charles | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1865-68 | 263 |
Pede, Thomas Thorpe | Alexandra Theatre [Regents Park Th., (Royal) Park Th. etc.] | 1873-75, 1876 | 557 |
Peel, Frederick Thomas | Shoreditch Empire [London MH, etc.] | 1923-34 | 739 |
Peel, Victor Sylvester | Shoreditch Empire [London MH, etc.] | 1920-22 | 739 |
Peerless, George Read | Cumberland Head & Green Gate PH | 1869-73 | 206 |
Pellant, Walter | Gipsy Queen PH | 1884-88 | 310 |
Pemberton-Billing, Noel | Royal Court Cinema Ltd. and Royal Court Theatre | 1936-40 | 679 |
Penley, William Sidney | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1893-98 | 316 |
Novelty Theatre / Great Queen Street Th. | 1897-1907 | 443 | |
Pennington, Frances | Three Cranes PH | 1859-60 | 802 [1860, licence refused] |
Pennington, Joseph Percival | Three Cranes PH | 1856-59 | 802 |
Penny, Andrew Benjamin | Cape of Good Hope PH | 1862-63 | 131 |
Pied Bull PH | 1868-69 | ||
[executors of above] | . . | 1869-70 | 582 |
Penny, Thomas | Temperance Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1861-78 | 791 |
Pepper, Francis Joseph | Kilburn Empire | 1909-25 | 414 |
Pepper, F. J. and London Theatres of Varieties | Kilburn Empire | 1925-28 | 414 |
Pepper, William | Pewter Platter PH (Finsbury) | 1869-70 | 571 |
Percy, John Stewart | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1914-15 | 853 |
Percy, William Herbert | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1918-?23 | 853 |
Kennington Theatre | 1919-21 | 412 | |
Perfect, James Robert | Parkhurst Theatre | 1890-98 | 558 |
Perkins, George | Bull PH | 1862-67 | 119 |
Perkins, John | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1878-80 | 891 |
Perkins, John, Hood, John S., and Foreman, John | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1873-77 | 283 |
Perkins, John Foreman, John and | . . | 1872-73, 1877-79 | . . |
Perkins, John, Foreman, John, and Sharp, John S. | . . | 1879-81 | . . |
Perrin, Morris | Manor House | 1890-91 | 484 |
Perrin, Samuel | Manor House | 1872-76, 1884-87 | 484 |
Perry, Eli | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1877-78 | 298 |
Perry, James Walter and Streatham Hill Playhouse Ltd | Streatham Hill Theatre | 1930-[?] | 767 |
Perry, Thomas Gilbert and Tomsson, John | Novelty Theatre | 1895-96 | 443 |
Perugia, George | White Hart PH (Chelsea) | 1887-90 | 865 [Nov. 1890, licence refused, work required not completed] |
Peters, John Farrington | Old Will Summers PH | 1851-52 | 547 |
Old Commodore PH (Whitechapel) | 1853-63 | 533 | |
Peters, William John | Old Commodore PH (Whitechapel) | 1863-65 | 533 |
Pether, Samuel Robert | Old Will Summers PH | 1861-62 | 547 |
Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1866-67 | 352 | |
Petherbridge (Carrington), Sarah Jane | King and Queen PH (St. Marylebone) | 1882-86 | 417 |
Petter, Francis Joseph | Islington Palace (at Royal Agricultural Hall) | 1908-09 | 401 [returned 13.3.1909] |
Pettit, Ann | Bald Faced Stag PH | 1883-85 | 44 |
Pettit, Henry James | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1871-75 | 342 |
Petty, Edward | Queen Victoria PH (Battersea) | 1874-75 | 622 |
Prendergast Arms PH | 1879-83 | 590 [1883 licence refused] | |
Petron, Alexis, | Royal Holborn Theatre | 1873-74 | 244 |
Valuay, Ernest, and Princess’s Theatre (2nd building) | 1874 | 616 | |
Pewtress, Frederick | King’s Head PH (St. Pancras) | 1865-66 | 436 |
Phelps, Samuel, Greenwood, Thomas Longden, and Warner, Robert | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1845-46 | |
Greenwood, Thomas Longden & | . . | 1846-62 | 702 |
Philips, George | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1880-81 | 316 |
Philips, Richard | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1874-75 | 392 |
Phillipas, Elizabeth | Mitford Castle PH | 1876-77 | 497 |
Phillipe, Jacques | (New) Strand Theatre | 1845-46 | 766 |
Phillipe, William | Camel PH | 1874-75 | 129 |
Phillips, Acton (Snr) | Town Hall and Temple of Varieties [later Hammersmith Palace of Varieties] | 1884-93 | 363 |
Phillips, Acton | Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1892-93 | 477 |
Phillips, Acton, Jnr | South London Palace of Varieties | 1896-97 | 751 |
Phillips, Acton Francis | Town Hall and Temple of Varieties [later Hammersmith Palace of Varieties] | 1893-99 | 363 |
Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1908, 1917-19 | 477 | |
Phillips, Arthur | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1936 | 477 |
Phillips, Benjamin | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1864-67 | 298 |
Phillips, Benjamin | Queen’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1874-78 | 629 |
Phillips, Benjamin George | Red Lion PH (Greenwich) | 1877-82 | 647 |
(Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1884-87 | 678 | |
Phillips, Henry | White Horse PH (Stratford, Bow) | 1857-?59 | 874 [1859, no petition, said to have left the house] |
Phillips, Henry | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1875-83 | 837 |
Phillips, James | Adam’s Arms PH | 1852-61 | 4 |
Phillips, John | British Queen PH (Stepney) | 1851-62 | 107 |
Phillips, Moss | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1850-55 | 430 |
Phillips, Septimus | Green Dragon PH (Ratcliff) | 1887-? | 338 |
Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall (Stepney) | 1887-93 | 906 | |
Phillips, William | Old Fountain PH | 1873-78 | 538 |
Phillips, William | Walpole Arms PH | 1873-91 | 845 |
Phillips, William Thomas | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1875-77 | 173 |
Philo, Frederick Thomas | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1866-67 | 784 |
Pick, John | Gipsy Queen PH | 1869-70 | 310 |
Pick, John Ignatius | Crown PH (Oxford St., Westminster) | 1860-62 | 197 |
Pickel, Rudolf Henry | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1877-78 | 161 |
Pickering, Edward Albert | Strand Theatre [Waldorf Th., Whitney Th., Novello Th.] | 1915-16 | 765 |
Pickering, Edward Francklin | Cobham’s Head PH | 1857-59 | 165 |
Pickering, Edwin Franklin | Tavistock Arms PH | 1862-63 | 790 |
Picking, Benjamin | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1876-77 | 323 |
Picton, Joseph | Magpie and Stump PH | 1878-81 | 481 |
Piercy, Joseph | Brown Bear PH (Knightsbridge) | 1851-68 | 112 |
Piggott, William Henry | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1874-76 | 203 |
Pigott, Thomas Joseph and for the Trustees of J.B. Mulholl | King’s Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1946-48 | 421 |
Pike, Charles Thomas | Freemason’s Arms PH (Limehouse) | 1856 (through 1888), 1890-91 | 293 |
Pike, Samuel | Pied Horse PH | 1875-76 | 583 |
Pilbrow, Harold James | Prince’s Theatre [Shaftesbury Theatre] | 1934-36 | 612 |
Pilgrim, Ezra Albert | Montpelier Music Hall | 1899-1901 | 501 |
Pillbeam, George | Little Driver PH | 1866-71 | 459 |
Pilliner, Frederick James | Rose and Crown PH (Old Artillery Ground, Tower) | 1851-52 | 669 |
Pinn, Charles Salter | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1878-79 | 438 |
Pinn, Francis Albert | Montpelier Music Hall / Empire Music Hall | 1901-03 | 501 |
Pinn, John | Prince of Wales PH (Prince of Wales Road, St.Pancras) | 1876-78 | 605 |
Pinn, Walter | Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall | 1899-1900 | 906 |
Pinnock, Daniel | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1875-76 | 601 |
Piper, James | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1888-91 | 411 |
Piper, Moses | Mitford Castle PH | 1877-79 | 497 |
Pitcher, Anne | White Raven PH | 1860-63 | 879 [1863, licence refused] |
Pitcher, James | Britannia PH (Wapping) | 1854-63 | 103 |
Pitt, Ellen, Mrs. | Surrey Theatre | 1869 | 778 [licence later withdrawn and theatre closed] |
Pitt, Joseph | Pitt’s Head PH | 1856-71 | 586 |
Pitt, Liberty | Guy of Warwick PH | 1857-58 | 358 |
Pitt, William Woodcock | White Hart PH (Chelsea) | 1869-75 | 865 |
Pitron, Alexis | Opera Comique | 1875 | 550 |
Place, Catherine | Surprise PH (Christchurch Terr., Chelsea) | 1877-?90 | 776 |
Platt, William Alexander | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1862-63 | 578 |
Playfair, Nigel Ross | Lyric Opera House / Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1920-35 | 477 |
Playle, William James | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1878-81 | 321 |
Plimmer, Henry | Ship and Camel PH | 1854-55 | 737 |
Plumb, George Thomas | Red Deer PH | 1871-73 | 645 |
Plume, John | Plume’s Music Hall [Mitre Music Hall] | 1880-98 | 498 |
Plume, William Henry | Plume’s Music Hall [Mitre Music Hall] | 1870-80 | 498 |
Plummer, Edward | Eagle and Child Coffee Tavern | 1881-82 | 249 |
Pocock, Edward Adams | Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1877-78 | 673 |
Polden, Thomas Ernest | Palace Theatre of Varieties | 1893-1918 | 554 |
Pollard, Arthur | Mitford Castle PH | 1899-1903 | 497 |
Pollard, Johnathan M.A. | Havelock Arms PH | 1869-71 | 369 |
Pollybank, Nicholas | Sir Sidney Smith PH | 1863-64 | 748 |
White Hart PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1864-65 | 864 | |
Polworth, Robert | Jew’s Harp PH | 1854-55 | 404 |
Pomeroy, Jay | Cambridge Theatre | 1947-49 | 125 |
Holloway Empire | 1947-[?] | 380 [by 1949, in hands of Official Receiver] | |
Pond, Ann | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1873-75 | 76 |
Pond, Thomas | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1865-73 | 76 |
Ponsford, James Buxley | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1890 | 636 |
Ponu, Frederick Charles | Hope PH (Blackmore St., Clare Market) | 1857-58 | 385 |
Pool, Joseph Francis | Bull PH | 1859-61 | 119 |
Poole, Christopher George | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1855-56 | 838 |
Poole, Ellen | South London Palace of Varieties | 1882-96 | 751 |
Poole, John and Speedy, Henry | South London Palace of Varieties | 1873-80 | 751 |
Poole, John Joshua | South London Palace of Varieties | 1880-82 | 751 |
Poole, Reginald Claude | Royal Surrey Gardens | 1876-78 | 696 |
. . and Stacey, Walter | Surrey Gardens Theatre | 1875-78 | 777 |
Poole, Richard John | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1877-78 | 852 |
Pope, James John | White Hart PH (Chelsea) | 1881-87 | 865 |
Porter, Edward | Peacock PH | 1865-70 | 562 |
Porter, Elizabeth | White Swan PH (Deptford) | 1868-78 | 880 |
Porter, Emma | Red Lion PH (Bermondsey) | 1874-75 | 646 |
Porter, John | White Swan PH (Deptford) | 1850-68 | 880 |
Porter, Thomas | St. Helena Music Hall, Gardens and PH | 1876-78 | 704 |
Potier, William | Paragon Music Hall [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1894-99 | 494 |
Pott, Stephen | Imperil Music Hall (Leicester Square, (for Imperial Music Hall) site of later Empire Theatre) | 1864-65 | 266 |
Potter, Matilda Jemima | White Hart PH (Chelsea) | 1878-81 | 865 |
Potter, William | King’s Arms PH (St. Clement Danes) | 1854-57 | 425 |
Potterell, George | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1860-61 | 321 |
Pottinger, James | Anchor and Hope PH | 1861-63 | 28 |
Pound, Caroline | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1886-91 | 14 |
Pound, Samuel Sherwell | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1884-86 | 14 |
Pounds, Henry Joseph | Prendergast Arms PH | 1878-79 | 590 |
Powell, Frederick | Falcon PH | 1885-87 | 276 |
Powell, Henry | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1871-72 | 702 |
Powell, Henry | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1865-68 | 560 |
Powell, Henry and Harrison, Charles | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1864-65 | 560 |
Powell, Thomas Morton | Britannia Theatre | 1911-15 | 105 |
Power, Thomas | Paul’s Head PH | 1860 | 559 |
Praed, Herbert Bulkley and Hunt, Arthur | Grosvenor Hall | 1876-1903 | 355 |
Prance, William | Navy Arms PH | 1888 | 512 [Nov. 1889 licence granted to William Prance, bit retained. 1890 licence not granted] |
Pratt, John Charles | Tufnell Park Hotel (Tufnell Arms PH) | 1898 | 821 |
Preece, Frederick | St. Helena Music Hall, Gardens and PH | 1866-74 | 704 |
Preece, F. and Nicholls, Alfred [managers] | Globe Theatre [Newington Hall] | 1856 | 315 |
Preece, Henry | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1869-71 | 92 |
Preece, Richard, The Elder | Winchester Music Hall [Grapes Tavern, Surrey MH, etc.] | 1849-66 | 887 |
Preece, Richard, the Younger/Jnr | St. Helena Music Hall, Gardens and PH | 1855-66 | 704 |
Winchester Music Hall [Grapes Tavern, Surrey MH, etc.] | 1866-78 | 887 | |
Preen, Walter Burton | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1887-88 | 264 |
Prevost, James | Anchor and Hope PH | 1855-60 | 28 |
Price, Andrew | Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1874-76 | 839 |
Price, Ann | Prince of Wales PH (Islington) | 1856-69 | 604 |
Price, Edward Cole | Hare and Hounds PH (St.Pancras) | 1850-52 | 366 |
Price, George | Prince of Wales PH (Islington) | 1854-56, 1869-76 | 604 |
Price, George | Crown & Anchor PH (Bermondsey) | 1862-63 | 201 |
Price, James Cave | Trafalgar Beer House (City Road) | 1854-59 | 815 |
Price, John | Magpie and Stump PH | 1882-85 | 481 |
Price, Louisa | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1864-65 | 78 |
Price, Richard Henry | Cooper’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1861 | 176 |
Price, Robert | Adam’s Arms PH | 1861-62 | 4 |
Price, Thomas | Cherry Tree PH (Bromley) | 1854-57 | 148 |
Price, W.C., Cannon, Charles, Swatton, H.T., and Cotton, F.K. | Foresters Hall (Finsbury) | 1872-76 | 282 |
[as above less F.K. Cotton] | 1876-77 | . . | |
[as above with T.J. Dawson] | 1877-78 | . . | |
Price, W.C., Arnold, Ebenezer, Swatton, H.T., Dawson, T.J. and … | 1878-86 | . . | |
Price, William Henry | Railway Hotel & PH (Putney) | 1878-82 | 637 |
Prideaux, Sarah | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1876-77 | 92 |
Pridmore, Richard | Saville House (Leicester Square, (for Saville House) site of later Empire Theatre) | 1850-55 | 266 |
Priest, George Frederick | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1865-66 | 325 |
Pritchett, Samuel | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1877-78 | 76 |
Probyn, Alfred | Prince Albert PH (St. Pancras) | 1856-63 | 591 |
Probyn, Alfred | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1879-81 | 92 |
Provost, William | Royal Edward PH | 1891 [licence retained] | 682 |
Puckridge, Henry | Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 2nd building] | 1850-51 | 549 |
Pugh, Joseph Mincer | George PH (Shoreditch) | 1852-55 | 305 |
Pugh, Sarah | Chequers PH | 1860-68 | 145 |
Pulford, Magdalene | Rose and Crown PH (St. Pancras) | 1864 [licence refused] | 667 |
Purcell, Frederick William | New Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1897-1905 | 20 |
Marlborough Theatre | 1904-06 | 488 | |
Purcell, see also: Pursell (below) | |||
Purchase, William | Ship PH (Westminster) | 1872-[?89] | 735 |
Purkiss, William Thomas | Royal York PH | 1861-62 | 698 |
Holborn Theatre / West Central Hall | 1884-[?]90 | 377 | |
Royal Music Hall / Royal Holborn Empire | 1881-86 | 376 | |
. . and Adams, Samuel | Royal Music Hall / Royal Holborn Empire | 1886-90 | 376 |
Pursell [sic], George Frederick | Hop Pole PH | 1869-70 | 383 |
Putland, Louisa | Baxter Arms PH | 1874-75 | 54 |
Puzey, Paul | Island Queen PH | 1860-63 | 399 |
Quaintrell, Henry | White Hart PH (Bethnal Green) | 1862-66 | 862 |
Quaintrell, John | Waterman’s Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1865-68 | 847 |
Quinton, William Ishmael | Rose and Crown PH (Finsbury) | 1876-77 | 666 |
Radburn, Joseph | White Horse PH (Finsbury) | 1864-65 | 871 |
Rambert, Marie [Mrs. Cyvia Myriam Dukes] | Mercury Theatre | 1934-41 | 492 |
Randall, John | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1867-74 | 851 |
Randall, John Freeman | Saberton Arms PH | 1875-76 | 701 |
Randall, Mary | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1859-61 | 438 |
Randall, Mary Ann, Matilda and Louisa | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1861-63 | 438 |
Rantzon, Mannas | Ship and Blue Coat Boy PH | 1876-79 | 736 |
Ratcliff, George | Seven Stars PH | 1877-80 | 722 |
Ratcliff, William | Royal Hotel (PH) (Hackney) | 1866-68 | 684 |
Ratcliffe, Edward W. | Good Duke Humphrey Coffee Tavern (Greenwich) | 1890-91 | 326 |
Rawlings, Edward | Paragon Music Hall [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1909-11 | 494 |
Rawll, Henry Charles | Albion Hall | 1888-92 | 11 |
Raybould, Henry | Waggon and Horse PH | 1863-66 | 843 |
Raymond, Matthew | Variety Theatre (Shoreditch) | 1909-10 | 829 |
Raymond, Matthew | Empire Cinema (Empire Theatre, Leicester Square) | 1937-46 | 266 |
Raymond, William James | Lord Raglan MusicHall and PH (Plumstead) | 1867-74 | 472 |
Rea, Alec Lionel | St. Martin’s Theatre | 1920-37 | 709 |
Read, John William | White Conduit House | 1848-51 | 861 |
Reader, Robert | St. John’s Wood PH | 1882-89 | 707 |
Redgrave, Cornelius | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1878-79 | 585 |
Reed, Alfred and Grain, Corney | St. George’s Hall | 1877-95 | 703 |
Reed, Charles | White Swan PH (Shadwell) | 1882-86 | 882 |
Reed, John | York and Albany PH | 1869-77 | 907 |
Reed, John Middleton | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1874-76 | 578 |
Reed, Henry Dore | St. George’s Hall | 1895-97 | 703 |
Reed, Robert | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1887-91 | 442 |
Reed, Thomas German | Gallery of Illustration | 1956-? | 297 [Oct. 1860-? Special limited licences for Mr. German Reed’s entertainments] |
Reeland, Peter Yorde | Black Eagle PH | 1875-77 | 79 |
Reeve, Alfred | Trevor Music Hall | 1885-89 | 817 |
Reeve, George | Linwood Gallery (Leicester Square, [for Linwood Gallery] site of later Empire Theatre) | 1857-58 | 266 [He had been refused a licence the previous year] |
Reeve, Hastings John | Old White Horse PH | 1872-74 | 546 |
Duke of Bridgewater PH | 1885 | 225 | |
Reeves, Charlotte | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1890-91, 1894-96 | 298 |
Reeves, Richard Thomas | Duke of Wellington PH (Drury Lane, Westminster) | 1856-72 | 235 |
Reeves, William | John Bull PH | 1871-73 | 405 |
Reilly, Thomas | King’s Hall [Phoenix Temperance Hall] | 1875-?97 | 420 |
Rendle, William Edgcumbe | Imperial Theatre [formerly (Royal) Aquarium Theatre] | 1880-81 | 396 |
Rennell, James | Rose and Crown PH (Knightsbridge) | 1856-62 | 670 |
Rennoldson, Charles | Coach and Horses PH (Clerkenwell) | 1854-61 | 163 |
Reuter, George | Sekforde Arms PH | 1879-82 | 720 |
Reuter, Sarah Ann [? and see Sarah Ann Fenwick (above)] | Sekforde Arms PH | 1882-88 | 720 |
Reynolds, Abraham | Crown PH (Stepney) | 1868-69 | 195 |
Rhodes, Robert | Washington Music Hall [Battersea Palace] | 1899-99 | 51 |
Rhodes, Robert Marshall | Royal Hotel (Stepney) | 1891 [licence retained] | 685 [Nov. 1891, application withdrawn] |
Rhodes, William [manager] | Cyder Cellars | 1820s | 207 |
Rice, Edward Walter | Greenwich Hippodrome [prev. Crowder’s MH, etc.] | 1912-13 | 346 |
Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1916 | 477 | |
Tivoli Th., Bow [Bow Palace] | 1918-19 | 92 | |
Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1918-23 | 674 | |
Collins’ Music Hall | 1938-39 | 168 | |
Rice, Edwin | Greyhound PH (Islington) | 1870-71 | 348 |
Rice, Thomas Henry | Jolly Anglers PH (Finsbury) | 1888-90 | 407 |
Rich, John [Manager] | Theatre Royal, Covent Garden | 1732- ? | 182 [A patent theatre, therefore not licensed] |
Rich, Charles | Belmont PH | 1862-63 | 67 |
Rich, Margaret | King’s Arms PH (Hackney) | 1879-82 | 429 |
Richard, Frederick | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1901-03 | 781 |
Richards, James | Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 2nd building | 1870-73 | 300 |
Richards, Thomas | Queen Victoria PH (Battersea) | 1881-84 | 622 |
Richards, Thomas | Collins’ Th. of Varieties [Collins’ MH] | 1898-19 | 168 |
Richards, Thomas Greenhill | (Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1909-23 | 677 |
Richardson, Charles Edward | Baxter Arms PH | 1872-74 | 54 |
Richardson, Frederick | Royal Edward PH | 1877-88 | 682 |
Richardson, George Augustus | Savoy Theatre (1st building) | 1911-15 | 716 |
Richardson, Harriet and Richmond, Eliza | Yorkshire Grey PH | 1883-85 | 909 |
Richardson, Henry Thomas | Prince Edward Theatre [London Casino] | 1930-34 | 135 |
Whitehall Theatre | 1934-35 | 884 | |
Richardson, Peter Harrison | Bird Cage PH | 1864-65 | 71 |
Richardson, Thomas and Thorne, Richard Samuel | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1844-45 | 560 |
Richardson, Walter Edward | Three Crowns PH (North Woolwich) | 1887-1901 | 804 |
Richardson, William | Three Colts PH (Bethnal Green) | 1858-63 | 797 |
Richardson, William Thomas | New Clown PH | 1888-91 | 515 |
Richmond, Eliza and Richardson, Harriet | Yorkshire Grey PH | 1883-85 | 909 |
Rider, William | Queen’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1871-73 | 631 |
Rider, William | Duke of Richmond PH | 1875-76 | 233 |
Rider-Noble, Charles | Brixton Theatre | 1896-99 | 108 |
Ridge, Frank Luke | Shakespeare PH | 1867-73 | 726 |
Ridgley, Leonard Frank | Saville Theatre | 1947-50 | 715 |
Rier, Richard | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1873-80 | 234 |
Rignold, George | Holborn Theatre | 1884 | 377 |
Rignold, William | Holborn Theatre | 1884-85 | 377 |
Riley, William | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1863-71 | 438 |
Riley, William | (Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1880-97 | 677 |
Rimbault, Charles Frederick | Sugar Loaf PH (Mile End New Town) | 1859-60 | 770 |
Rind, Edward | Collins’ Music Hall | 1936-37 | 168 |
Ringer, William | Cherry Tree PH (Shoreditch) | 1872-74 | 147 |
Rippin, William | Jew’s Harp PH | 1861-62 | 404 |
Ritchie, Wallis and Frederick | Lamb PH (Bethnal Green) | 1862-63 | 448 |
Rivers, John Power | Printer’s Arms PH | 1854-55 | 618 |
Rivett, Rebecca | Baring MH | 1867-71 | 48 |
Rixsen, Joseph | Baring MH | 1871-74 | 48 |
Rizareli, Francisco and Dominogo | Holborn Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1875-77 | 377 |
Roads, Harper | King’s Arms PH (Hackney) | 1882-83 | 429 |
Robert, George Tooke | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1888-89 | 702 |
Roberts, Edmund | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1856-64 | 904 |
Roberts, Henry Ball | (New) Strand Theatre | 1844-45 | 766 |
Roberts, Valentine | Beckford’s Head PH | 1854-55 | 56 |
Roberts, William Thomas | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1876-77 | 14 |
Robertson, Charles Christopher | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1887-88 | 263 |
Robertson, John | Rising Sun PH (Fulham) | 1866-77 | 661 |
Robertson, Norman Forbes | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1891 | 316 |
Robertson, William Athole | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1874-76 | 851 |
Robertson, William Wybrow | Royal Aquarium Theatre [later Imperial Theatre] | 1877-79 | 396 |
Robesson, Benjamin | City of London PH | 1869-70 | 155 |
Robinson, Albert Ernest | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1900-01 | 781 |
Robinson, Francis | Philharmonic Hall | 1869-70 | 400 |
Robinson, George | Prince of Wales’ Feathers PH (St. Pancras) | 1866-70 | 608 |
Robinson, George | Wilton’s Music Hall | ||
[management, no licensing records at LCC] | [Albion Saloon / Mahogany Bar, etc.] | 1870-74 | 886 |
Robinson, George | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1873-74 | 690 |
Robinson, George | Cock and Hoop PH | 1888-90 | 167 |
Robinson, Robert | Railway PH (Islington) | 1870-74 | 638 |
Robinson, Stanley | Phoenix PH (Ratcliff) | 1863-68 | 578 |
Robinson, Stewart James | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1875-78 | 784 |
Robinson, William | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1934-36 | 363 |
Robson, Frederick Thomas and Emden, William Samuel | Olympic Theatre 2nd building | 1857-64 | 549 |
Robson, Matthew | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1882-85 | 702 |
Rodford, Robert | Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1889-90 | 316 |
Roe, W., Hood, John S., and Foreman, John | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1869-72 | 283 |
Roffway, James | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1858-59 | 680 |
Rofs, William James | (Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1867 | 545 |
Rogers, Andrew | Old King John’s Head PH | 1871-84 | 539 |
Rogers, Francis | Sir John Franklin PH | 1862-63 | 746 |
Rogers, George John | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1858-66 | 284 |
Rogers, John | King and Queen PH (St. Marylebone) | 1866-82 | 417 |
Rogers, Mary [widow of Andrew Rogers, above] | Old King John’s Head PH | 1884-90 [Nov. 1890 licence refused] | 539 |
Rogers, Thomas | Prince Albert PH (Holloway, St. Mary, Islington) | 1865-66 | 592 |
Rohan, David James | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1877-78 | 437 |
Rohrs, John | Black Dog PH (Stepney) | 1859-61 | 77 |
Rohrs, Wilhelm | Black Dog PH (Stepney) | 1861-62 | 77 |
Rook, George | Pied Horse PH | 1851-52 | 583 |
Roper, Mary Ann | Earl Grey PH | 1854-55 | 250 |
Roscoe, Robert | Adam & Eve PH (Holborn) | 1862-63 | 2 |
Rose, William | White Swan PH (Mile End) | 1877-84 | 881 |
Roselios, John | Prince Regent PH (St. George in the East)) | 1887-89 | 610 |
Rosenberg, Jacob | Paragon Music Hall / Mile End Empire [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, etc.] | 1911-12 | 494 |
Rosenthal, Jacob Woolf | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1910-11, 1911-12, 1922-34 | 560 |
Rosmer, Milton | Everyman Theatre | 1928-30 | 274 |
Ross, Daniel | Shadwell Dock Coffee House | 1850-54 | 724 |
Ross, Robert | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1862-63 | 321 |
Rossberg, Herman | Helvetia Music Hall | 1887-91 | 372 |
Roth, David | Surrey Theatre | 1924 | 778 |
Rothstein, Mrs. Sarah and Woolwich Empire Ltd | Woolwich Empire [Barnard’s Theatre, etc.] | 1940-[?] | 902 |
Rountree, Frederick | Salmon and Compasses PH (Clerkenwell) | 1850-60 | 714 |
Rountree, Maria | Red Lion PH (Clerkenwell) | 1862-63 | 650 |
Rouse, Richard | White Conduit House | 1847-48 | 861 |
Rouse, Thomas | Grecian Saloon / Grecian Theatre | 1843-51 | 336 |
Rowe, Hubert | Seven Stars PH | 1871-74 | 722 |
Rowe, James | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1859-63 | 680 |
Rowland, Horace William | Coronet Theatre | 1913-15 | 178 |
Royner, James | Waterloo Hero PH | 1867-77 | 846 |
Ruddick, Jane Ann | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1886-88 | 640 |
Ruddick, J.A. | Corunna Music Hall | ? -1889 | 179 |
Ruddock, John | Exmouth Arms PH | 1866-68 | 275 |
Ruffy, Daniel William | St. Pancras Athenaeum | 1855-57 | 710 |
Rumsey, George | Clay Hall PH | 1859-60 | 160 |
Rumsey, John, Jnr | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1875-76 | 869 |
Russell, Frederick | Lord Raglan Music Hall and PH (Holborn) | 1856-57 | 473 |
Russell, Henshaw | Crystal Palace Theatre | 1890-97 | 205 |
Russell, William | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1921-22 | 560 |
Ryall, Richard | Freemason’s Arms PH (King’s Cross) | 1855-58 | 294 |
Rye, Frederick | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1882-83 [provisional] | 375 |
Ryley, Thomas William | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1905-06 | 725 [22.5.06, licence withdrawn ( see Howard), theatre reclaimed by owners] |
Sacker, Joseph | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1851-52 | 665 |
Sadler Jnr, George | Manchester Arms PH | 1868-84 | 482 |
Sainsbury, George Brice | Ship PH (Mile End) | 1857-60 | 734 |
St. Claire, Mrs Mary Anne | Park Theatre [Regents Park Th., Alexandra Th., etc.] | 1876-78 | 557 |
St. Lawrence, Victoria | Novelty Theatre | 1896-97 | 443 |
Saint Ledger, Martin | George the Fourth PH (Whitechapel) | 1856-58 | 309 |
Bagnigge Wells PH | 1858-61 | 42 | |
Salmon, Charles Eugene | Load of Hay PH | 1874-75 | 460 |
Salmon, Frederick Henry | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1877-78 | 352 |
Cape of Good Hope PH | 1886-87 | 131 | |
Salmon, Henry | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1872-73 | 325 |
Baxter Arms PH | 1876-77 | 54 | |
Salter, Frederic Robert | Castle PH (Islington) | 1862-64 | 137 |
Salter, William Blackmore | Victoria PH (Rotherhithe) | 1888 | 841 |
Saltmer, Alfred John | Alma MH | 1875-79 | 23 |
Samuel, George | Devonshire Arms PH | 1884-86 | 214 |
Samuel, Karl | Jodrell Theatre [Novelty Theatre] | 1885-86 | 443 |
Samuel, William and Crauford, Alfred Lane | Britannia Theatre | 1899-1904 | 105 |
Samworth, Charles | Coal Hole PH | 1860-61 | 164 |
Sanders, Frederick and Lacey, Edward | Philharmonic Hall | 1860-64 | 400 |
Sanders, Frederick and Adams, Samuel | Philharmonic Hall | 1864-65 | 400 |
Sanders, Joseph | Blue Anchor PH (Wapping) | 1854-57 | 85 |
Sanders, Joseph Octavius | Waggon and Horse PH | 1866-68 | 843 |
Sanderson, James | Victoria Theatre of Varieties [Blue Ribbon Hall] (Marsham St., Westminster) | 1887-90 | 840 [Nov. 1890, licence refused] |
Sanderson, Robert Stuart | Westminster Theatre | 1947-? | 854 |
Sanger, John & Sanger, George | Theatre Royal, Astley’s | 1871-74 | 38 |
Sanger, John | Theatre Royal, Astley’s | 1874-85 | 38 |
Sanger, George | Beckford’s Head PH | 1878-83 | 56 |
Sanger’s Grand National Amphitheatre [Astley’s Th.] | 1885-92 | 38 | |
Sanger, William | Bull PH | 1867-70 | 119 |
Santley, Kate | Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1877-79, 1881-1906 | 699 |
Sargent, Robert | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1866-73 | 408 |
Sargent, Walter | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1873-77 | 321 |
Satter, Richard Thomas | King’s Head PH (Deptford) | 1878-79 | 435 |
Saunders, Edward George | Coronet Theatre | 1898-1904 | 178 |
Terriss’ Theatre [Rotherhithe Hippodrome] | 1899-1900 | 674 | |
Brixton Theatre | 1899-1901 | 108 | |
Camden Theatre | 1901[?]-1903 | 127 | |
Saunders, George Francis | Prince of Wales PH (Islington) | 1876 [licence refused] | 604 |
Saunders, John Hall | Black Bull PH (Lewisham) | 1859-60 | 75 |
Saunders, William | Skinner’s Arms PH | 1858-59 | 749 |
Savage, Henry | Eastern Colisseum | 1858-59 | 256 |
Savage, William | Old Commodore PH (Whitechapel) | 1865-70 | 533 |
Savill, James | Alma MH | 1874-75 | 23 |
Sawyer, Joseph and Day, Francis | Hoxton Hall | 1865-66 | 393 |
Saxl, Joseph | Red Lion PH (Holborn) | 1855-57 | 648 |
Sayer, William George | Queen Victoria PH (Battersea) | 1868-74 | 622 |
Rose and Crown PH (Finsbury) | 1874-75 | 666 | |
Scaddan, William | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1867-79 | 697 |
Scales, Annie Maria | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1866-67 | 851 |
Scales, Edward | Wellington Music Hall (Holborn) | 1865-66 | 851 |
Scarf, Samuel | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1879-90 | 838 |
Scargill, John | Lansdowne Arms PH [Collins’ Music Hall] | 1856-59 | 168 |
Scarlett, Mary Ann Green | Lord Nelson PH (Whitechapel Rd., formerly Roadside) | 1870-76 | 471 |
Scatchard, Henry | Prince of Brunswick PH | 1875-82 | 599 |
Schabel, Henry | Adam & Eve PH (Holborn) | 1855-57 | 2 |
Schaumloeffel, Jacob | Rose and Crown PH (St. George Street, Tower) | 1890-91 | 671 |
Schnabel, John Eberhardt | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1879-81 | 86 |
Schnacke, Heinrich | Sugar Loaf PH (St. George in the East) | 1868-72 | 769 [1872, licence refused as gambling was permitted] |
Schofield, Cecil Orlando, and British Union Varieties Ltd | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1944-47 | 454 |
Schofield, Robert Henry | Vaudeville Theatre | 1937-39 | 830 |
Schrier, Thomas Robinson | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1863-64 | 14 |
Schulte, John Henry | Black Horse & Windmill PH | 1859-62 | 82 |
Schultz, William Albert | Amersham Hall (Deptford) | 1896-1903 | 26 |
Scott, Charles | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1859-61 | 773 |
Scott, John Walter | Three Colts PH (Hackney) | 1866-68 | 798 |
New Albert Theatre [Garrick Theatre] (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1875 | 300 | |
Scott, Richard Robert Sharp | Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | 1880-83 | 141 |
Scott, Robert | Trafalgar Beer House (City Road) | 1870-77 | 815 |
Scott, Thomas | Northampton Arms PH | 1872-75 | 529 |
Scott, Walter | Northampton Arms PH | 1875-77 | 529 |
Scott, William | Blue Anchor PH (Stepney) | 1874-75 | 86 |
Scott, William | Ridley Arms PH | 1877-78 | 658 |
Scott William Abraham | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1854-56 | 321 |
Scully, John | Prince of Wales’ Feathers PH (St. Pancras) | 1870 [licence refused] | 608 |
Seager, George William | Devonshire Castle PH | 1859-60 | 215 |
Sergeant, William | Sugar Loaf PH (St. George in the East) | 1856-58 | 769 |
Searle, Frederick | Cumberland Head & Green Gate PH | 1890-91 | 206 |
Sears, Alfred | Phene Arms PH | 1876-77 | 573 |
Seaward, James | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1881-84 | 284 |
Seddon, Henry | Camberwell Empire | 1918-20 | 123 |
Marlborough Theatre (Islington) | 1919-[?] | 488 | |
Sedgley, Charles William | Olive Branch PH | 1874- | 548 [Nov.1889, LCC refused to renew licence] |
Sedger, Horace | Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (1st building) | 1887-92 | 607 |
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1890-96 | 478 | |
Seeley, John William | Bishop Bonner PH | 1893-96 | 72 |
Seharttner, Augustus Ferdinand | Windsor Castle PH (St. Martin in the Fields) | 1850-59 | 893 [1859, no petition, licensee reported dead] |
Sehrt, Henry | Sugar Loaf PH (St. George in the East) | 1861-66 | 769 |
Sehrt, Peter | Sugar Loaf PH (St. George in the East) | 1866-68 | 769 |
Sell, Thomas | Spread Eagle PH | 1862-64 | 756 |
Sells, Edward Mark | Surrey Dock PH | 1873-74 | 780 |
Selves, Thomas | White Lion PH (Woolwich) | 1848-53 | 875 |
Seymour, John | Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel), 2nd building | 1864 | 300 |
Shalless, Edwin | Alexandra Hall | 1873-76 | 18 |
Shambler, Thomas | Princess Concert Room | 1863-70 | 614 |
Shand, William Francis | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) [?] -1868 | 526 [? from at least 1866, records for 1861-66 missing] | |
Shannon, Samuel | New Crown PH | 1852-55 | 517 |
Share, Alexander | Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1922-23 | 674 |
Sharman, Henry Risborough | Albert Palace | 1884-86 | 8 |
Sharp, James | Duchess Theatre | 1942-46 | 221 |
Sharp, John S., Foreman, John, and Perkins, John | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1879-81 | 283 |
Sharp, John S., Foreman, John, and Perkins, John | Foresters Hall (Forest Hill) | 1879-81 | 283 |
Sharp, John S., Foreman, John, and Dunford, William | . . | 1881-88 | . . |
Sharpe, James Ernest | Adelphi Theatre | 1932-33 | 6 |
Apollo Theatre | 1932-33 | 33 | |
Cambridge Theatre | 1932-33 | 125 | |
Gaiety Theatre (Aldwych) | 1932-33 | 296 | |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1932-33 | 375 | |
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1932-33 | 478 | |
St. James’s Theatre | 1932-33 | 705 | |
Shaftesbury Theatre | 1932-33 | 725 | |
Shaw, Alexander | Rose and Crown PH (Finsbury) | 1860-74 | 666 |
Shaw, Alfred | Elephant and Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1882-87 | 263 |
Shaw, Robert Charles | Northampton Arms PH | 1877-88 | 529 |
Shaw, William | Northampton Arms PH | 1888-90 | 529 |
Shaw, William | Kingsland, Dalston & De Beauvoir Lit. Inst. | 1854-57 | 11 |
Shaw, William Albert | Marylebone Music Hall | 1894-96 | 491 |
Shea, Mrs. Katherine Mary | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1945-46 | 330 |
Shea, Harry James (i.e. Shea-Barclay) | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1945-49 | 330 |
Shearman, James | Three Neats’ Tongues PH | 1860-61 | 811 |
Shearman, William | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1877-79 | 14 |
Shears, Sophia | Duke of Richmond PH | 1879-81 | 233 |
Sheckman, Mark | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1950 | 330 |
Sheen, Samuel Thomas Alexander | Duke of Richmond PH | 1885-86 | 233 |
Shelley, Abraham | Catherine Wheel PH | 1857 | 142 |
Shelley, Frederick | Monarch PH | 1856-59 | 499 |
Shelley, Margaret | Lyric Opera House [Lyric Theatre] (Hammersmith) | 1919 | 477 |
Shelley, Sir Percy F. [owner, private theatre, not licensed] | Shelley Theatre | 1882 | 729 |
Shelley, Philip James | Globe PH (Deptford) | 1866(?) -76 | 312 |
Shelton, Thomas Joseph | Camden Arms PH | 1882-91 | 126 |
Shenburn, Archie [Allerton] | Granville Theatre of Varieties | 1942 (through 1950) | 333 |
Rotherhithe Hippodrome | 1943-44 | 674 | |
Camberwell Palace | 1943- after 50 | 124 | |
ditto. and Suburban Century Cinemas Ltd. Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1943-45 | 363 | |
Sheppard, Harry | Railway PH (Wandsworth) | 1861-64 | 640 |
Shephard, Henry | Great Eastern PH | 1875-76 | 335 |
Shepherd, Elizabeth | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1858-60 | 63 |
Shepherd, James | North Pole PH (Islington) | 1857-59 | 527 [1859 licence refused] |
Shepherd, James | Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1863-75 | 381 |
Shepherd, John | Bell Tavern (Kilburn) | 1852-58 | 63 |
Shepherd, Richard | Surrey Theatre | 1848-50, 1862-63 1865-66 | . . |
. . and Creswick, William | . . | 1850-62, 1866-69 | . . |
. . Anderson, James Robertson | . . | 1863-65 | 778 |
Shepherd, Richard | Philharmonic Theatre | 1874-75 | 400 |
Sheppard, Frederick Brickell | Eastern Temple [Eastern Temperance Hall] | 1854-58 | 257 |
Sherbrooke, Dorothy Julia Gwynne | Daly’s Theatre | 1915-20 | 209 |
Shergold, John | Cherry Tree PH (Finsbury) | 1854-65, 1870-75 | 146 |
Shergold, Samuel | Cherry Tree PH (Finsbury) | 1865-70 | 146 |
Sheridan, Ann | Opera Comique | 1874-75 | 550 |
Sheridan, Victor | Islington Empire [formerly Grand Theatre] | 1930-32 | 400 |
Sheridan, Victor Metropolitan & Provincial, | Kilburn Empire | 1931-37 | 414 |
. . And Cinematograph Theatres Ltd | Hammersmith Palace of Varieties | 1931-34, 1936-37 | 363 |
Sherras, Arthur | Gipsy Queen PH | 1888-90 | 310 |
Sherren, Alice Mary | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1881-82 | 445 |
Sherren, Eleanor | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1882-83 | 445 |
Sherren, John James, and Dudley, Frederick John | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1877-81 | 445 |
Sherwin, Joseph B. | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1881-86 | 877 |
. . and Sherwin, James B. | . . | 1880-81 | . . |
Shipley, Ronald Harry | St. Martin’s Theatre | 1943-[through 1950] | 709 |
Shirley, Ernestine Mary Ann | Fulham Theatre [Grand Theatre, Shilling Theatre ] | 1948-50 | 329 |
Shirley, John | Jolly Sailor PH (Shadwell) | 1854-57 | 409 |
Short, James | Leaping Bear PH | 1854-66 | 451 |
Short, James | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1868-71 | 744 |
Shrubsole, Harry | Grand Theatre, Islington | 1900-03 | 400 |
Shubert, Lee | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1905 | 765 |
Shubert, Sam S. | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1905 | 765 |
Shynn, Henry | King’s Arms PH (St. Clement Danes) | 1857-61 | 425 |
Sibun, Alfred George | Victoria PH (Rotherhithe) | 1874-75 | 841 |
Siert, Hans G. | White Bear PH | 1873-82 | 860 |
Siert, Justine Wilhemine | White Bear PH | 1882-84 | 860 |
Silly, Henry | Hare Music Hall and PH | 1858-63 | 365 |
Silver, Sidney Joseph | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1864-66 | 784 |
Sim, George Stewart | Earl of Aberdeen PH (Bethnal Green) | 1861-69 | 252 |
Simkins, Edmund | Ridley Arms PH | 1878-87 | 658 |
Simmons, Albert | Camden Hippodrome [Camden Theatre] | 1915-17 | 127 |
Simmons, Emma | Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall | 1893-97 | 906 |
Simmons, James | Royal Hotel (PH) (Hackney) | 1868-89 | 684 |
Simmons, William | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1873-74 | 869 |
Simon, Julius | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1865-66 | 719 |
Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1871-76 | 228 | |
Simons, Arthur Leopold | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1891-93 | 298 |
Simpson, Thomas | Alexandra Hall | 1869-72 | 18 |
Simpson, Thomas | Royal Surrey Gardens | 1876-78 | 696 |
Simpson, Thomas Bartlett | Adelaide Gallery, Exhibition Rooms | 1850-52 | 5 |
Cremorne Gardens | 1852-61 | 185 | |
Royal Surrey Gardens | 1859-60 | 696 | |
Simpson, Vincent | Crown PH (Clerkenwell) | 1854-59 | 195 |
Simpson, William | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1893 | 508 |
Sims, Charles | Old Fountain PH | 1871-73 | 538 |
Sims, Thomas | Earl of Effingham Saloon / New Garrick Th., [East London Theatre, etc.] | 1843-52 | 255 |
Sinclair, Charles | Foresters Hall (Edgware Road) | 1869-71 | 281 |
Sinclair, Charles Terry | King and Queen PH (St. Marylebone) | 1886-88 | 417 [1888 licence refused] |
Sinclair, Frances | Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1866-67 | 602 |
Skegg, George | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1876-78 | 78 |
Skelton, William | City of Gloucester PH | 1854-57 | 154 |
Skinner, George | Alma MH | 1867-73 | 23 [licence refused 1868-69 owing to Sunday trading] |
Devonshire Arms PH | 1875-78 | 214 | |
Skinner, Thomas | Red Lion PH (Greenwich) | 1882-84 | 647 |
Slater, George | Blue Anchor PH (Westminster) | 1852-53 | 87 |
Sleath, Herbert | Aldwych Theatre | 1911 | 17 |
Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1911 | 626 | |
Sleath, Herbert and Bouchier, Arthur | Garrick Theatre (Charing Cross Rd.) | 1910-13, 1914-15 | 299 |
Sleigh, Mr. | Apollo MH | 1861-62 | 32 |
Sloman, Ellen | Ship PH (Woolwich) | 1867-85 | 733 |
Smallbone, Charles Rooke | Paul’s Head PH | 1859 | 559 |
Smee, Edward | Grand Theatre [Streatham Town Hall not municipal building] | 1892-97 | 331 |
Smee, Frederick | Rock of Gibraltar PH | 1869-75 | 663 |
Smeeton, Alfred | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1857-59 | 876 |
Smellie, Alexander | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1855-61 | 832 |
Smellie, Alexander | Victoria PH (Hackney Wick) | 1881-91 | 836 |
Smith, Adam | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1899-1900 | 908 |
Smith, Alfred | Red Lion PH (Holborn) | 1861-62 | 648 |
Smith, Alfred | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1878-80 | 744 |
Smith, Annie Maria | Ship and Blue Coat Boy PH | 1881-82 | 736 |
Smith, Charles | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1857-62 | 78 |
Smith, Charles | Sessions House Hotel | 1872 | 721 [1872, house destroyed] |
Smith, Charles | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1889-90 | 702 |
Smith, Charles | Wellington Hall (Islington) | 1896-98 | 850 |
Smith, Clarence T. | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1874-78 | 690 |
Smith, David | Lord Nelson New Music Hall [Euston MH, etc.] | 1852-58 | 470 |
Smith, Edward | Three Crowns PH (Chelsea) | 1854-55 | 803 |
Smith, Edward | Catherine Wheel PH | 1854-55 | 142 |
Smith, Edward | Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | 1858-65 | 141 |
Smith, Edward | Ship and Blue Coat Boy PH | 1879-81 | 736 |
Smith, Edward Tyrrell | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1851-53 | 853 |
Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1858-61 | 22 | |
Bijou Theatre | 1860 | 70 | |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1860-61 | 375 | |
Cremorne Gardens | 1861-70 | 185 | |
Astley’s Theatre | 1863-68 | 38 | |
Lyceum Theatre | 1867-69 | 476 | |
Surrey Theatre | 1870-71 | 778 | |
Regent Theatre (St. Anne, Westminster) | 1871-72 | 657 | |
Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1872-73 | 264 | |
Smith, E.T. | Alexandra Th. & Highbury Barn | 1871 | 19 |
Smith, Eliza | Cherry Tree PH (Bromley) | 1861-62 | 148 |
Smith, Frederick | King and Queen PH (Paddington) | 1850-55 | 418 |
Smith, Frederick and Smith, George | White Lion PH [Metropolitan Music Hall] | 1850-54 | 493 |
Smith, Frederick Harcourt | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1880-81 | 438 |
Smith, Frederick Hy. | Collins’ Music Hall | 1931-32 | 168 |
Smith, Frederick Hy. and Harte, Samuel | Collins’ Music Hall | 1932-33 | 168 |
Smith, Frederick William | Duke of Hamilton PH | 1882 | 231 |
Smith, George and Smith, Frederick | White Lion PH [Metropolitan Music Hall] | 1850-54 | 493 |
Smith, George Henry | Red Cow PH (Deptford) | 1846-53 | 643 |
Smith, George Henry | Lord Nelson PH (Devas St. formerly Park St., Stepney) | 1888-90 | 469 |
Smith, Henry | Duke of Wurtemburg PH | 1851 | 238 |
Smith, Henry | Royal George PH | 1863-64 | 683 |
Smith, Henry | Lamb PH (Kingsland Road) | 1872-73 | 445 |
Smith, Henry Richard | Lyceum Theatre | 1907-10 | 476 |
Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1908-09 | 765 | |
Smith, Isaac | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1898 | 508 |
Smith, Isabella | Red Lion PH (Holborn) | 1862 | 648 |
Smith, James | Rosemary Branch MH [Lovejoy’s MH, Peckham Th. of Varieties, etc.] | 1849-63 | 564 |
Smith, James | Old King John’s Head PH | 1866-71 | 539 |
Smith, James | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1868-69 | 191 |
Smith, James | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1878-85 | 392 |
Smith, James Johnson | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1862-66 | 352 |
Smith, Jasper | Red Deer PH | 1861-62 | 645 |
Smith, John | Sir John Barleycorn PH | 1854-59 | 742 |
Smith, John | Crown PH (Golden Sq., Westminster) | 1856-59 | 192 |
Smith, John | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1856-65 | 191 |
Smith, John | Red Deer PH | 1863-65 | 645 |
Smith, John | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1874-79 | 678 |
Smith, John Edward | Percy Arms PH | 1879-80 | 568 |
Smith, John Marvel | Crown & Anchor PH (Bethnal Green) | 1857-63 | 202 |
Smith, John Thomas | Horn PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1880-82 | 388 |
Smith, Mary | Red Deer PH | 1862-63 | 645 |
Smith, Peter | Earl of Aberdeen PH (Hoxton) | 1854-55 | 251 |
Smith, Richard | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1848-55 | 173 |
Smith, Samuel | Camel PH | 1886-87 | 128 |
Smith, Sarah | Lord Nelson New Music Hall [Euston MH, etc.] | 1858 | 470 |
Smith, Sarah | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1865-68 | 191 |
Smith, Septimus | Corunna Music Hall | 1871-74 | 179 |
Smith, Sidney | Swiss Cottage PH (Hackney) | 1871-91 | 787 |
Smith, Sidney | Priory PH | 1877-83 | 617 [1883, licence refused as hall rarely used for entertainments] |
Smith, Thomas | Hare and Hounds PH (Islington) | 1856-57 | 368 |
Smith, Thomas | George and Dragon PH | 1861-65 | 306 |
Smith, Thomas | Sekforde Arms PH | 1862 | 720 [licence refused] |
Smith, Thomas | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1871-78 | 744 |
Smith, Thomas | Prince Alfred PH | 1872-75 | 595 |
Smith, Thomas | Beckford’s Head PH | 1883 | 56 |
Smith, William | Dolphin PH (Shoreditch) | 1852-56 | 218 |
Smith, William | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1856-66 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | 739 | ||
Smith, William | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1866(?)-68 | 323 |
Smith, William | Talma PH (Lewisham) | 1868-70 | 789 |
Smith, William and Hoather, Henry | Commercial PH (Chelsea) | 1858-59 | 173 |
Smith, William Augustus | Island Queen PH | 1870-72 | 399 |
Smith, William James | King and Queen PH (Paddington) | 1855-68 | 418 |
Smith, William Jonathan | Albion PH (Newington) | 1861-63 | 13 |
Smyth-Piggott, Alfred (Cyril) | Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1911-12 | 626 |
Royal Court Theatre | 1918-19 | 679 | |
Smythe, Keable | Three Colts PH (Hackney) | 1863-64 | 798 |
Snape, Cecil Russell | Scala Theatre | 1922 | 717 |
Snow, Peter | St. John’s Wood PH | 1848-49 | 707 |
Sobee, Richard | Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | (prior to) 1850-58 | 141 |
Solomon, J[ulien] D[avis] | Philharmonic Theatre | 1875-77 | 400 |
Kilburn, Theatre Royal / Kilburn Palace | 1896-97, 1900-08 | 415 | |
Soman, Claude David | The Playhouse | 1942-? | 588 |
Somers, Charles | Victoria PH (Hampstead) | 1856-57 | 835 |
Somers, Charles | Cobham’s Head PH | 1859-62 | 165 |
Somerville, John Baxter and Associated Theatre Seasons | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1945 | 477 |
Sonhammer, Charles, Loibl, Emil and | London Pavilion (Tichborne St.) | 1866-74 | 464 |
Sonnes, Clarence | (New) Prince’s Theatre (Poplar) | 1905-07 | 589 |
Soole, George | Skinner’s Arms PH | 1862 | 749 [application withdrawn] |
Sounes, Clarence | Grand Theatre and Opera House [Woolwich Hippodrome] | 1900-08 | 903 |
Souter, John | Bishop Bonner PH | 1880-82 | 72 |
Southcott, James Vesey | White Hart PH (New Cross Rd., Hatcham) | 1876-80 | 867 |
_ Executors of above _ | . . | 1880-81 | . . |
Southern, John | Collins’ Music Hall | 1933-34 | 168 |
Southworth, Richard | King’s Head PH (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) | 1863-67 | 437 |
Spain, William | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1880-81 | 279 |
Sparkes, John | Surrey Dock PH | 1876-through 1888 | 780 |
Speed, Henry Richard | Talbot PH | 1865-66 | 788 |
Speedy, George | Metropolitan Music Hall | 1876-79 | 493 |
Speedy, George Richard | Middlesex MH | 1866-67 | 896 |
Metropolitan Music Hall | 1871-73 | 493 | |
Speedy, Henry Peter | Market House PH | 1865-66 | 487 |
Speedy, Henry and Poole, John | South London Palace of Varieties | 1873-80 | 751 |
Speaight, James George | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1878-83 | 161 |
Speaight, Jane Amelia | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1883-89 | 161 |
Spence, Alexander | Earl of Chatham PH | 1846-51 | 253 |
Spencer, John Edwin | Old Commodore PH (Poplar) | 1884 | 534 |
Spiers, Felix William | Criterion Theatre (first & second buildings) | 1881-89 | 186 |
Gaiety Theatre [Strand Musick Hall] | 1885 [?] | 295 | |
Spiers, Felix William and Bond, Christopher | Criterion Theatre (first building) | 1874-80 | 186 |
Spikes, James | Globe and Friends PH | 1855-68 | 318 |
Spill, Samuel | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1872-74 | 665 |
Spong, William | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1876-78 | 891 |
Spragg, William Drummond | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1875-77 | 100 |
Sprague, Isabel Katherine | Balham Hippodrome | 1921-23 | 46 |
Sprague, William George Robert | Royal Duchess Th. [Balham Hippodrome] | 1900-03 | 46 |
[and see ARCHITECTS] | Duchess Palace [Balham Hippodrome] | 1904-05 | 46 |
Sprake, Herbert | Collins’ Music Hall | 1881-98 | 168 |
Islington Hippodrome [Collins’ MH] | 1910-12 | 168 | |
Spring, William John | Devonshire Arms PH | 1886-90 | 214 |
Springett, Joseph | George PH (Finsbury) | 1864-67 | 304 |
Spurgin, Charles | West Kent Yeoman PH | 1884-86 | 852 |
Spurgin, Thomas Daniel | Sportsman PH | 1876-84 | 755 |
Spurr, Edward Thomas | Royal Oak PH (Hammersmith) | 1897-99 | 688 |
Squier [sic], Sarah Ann, Chapman, Emma Alice, and Herman, Henry Edward | Trocadero Music Hall | 1888-91 | 819 |
Squier, William Henry | City of London Theatre | 1869-70 | 156 |
Squire, Frank | City of York PH | 1861-66, 1871-82 | 159 |
Squire, John | City of York PH | 1866-71 | 159 |
Squires, George Henry | Bridge House PH | 1865-67 | 96 |
Stace, Alfred | Cat and Shoulder of Mutton PH | 1867-73 | 141 |
Stacey, John | Jolly Tanners Music Hall and PH | 1870-78 | 411 |
Stacey, Walter, and Poole, Reginald Claude | Surrey Gardens Theatre | 1875-78 | 777 |
Staines, Alfred | Whitehall Theatre | 1939-40 | 884 |
Stainforth, John | Old Commodore PH (Whitechapel) | 1850-53 | 533 |
Stammers, Joseph | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1850-51 | 853 |
Stanley, Edward Arthur Vesey | London Opera House [Stoll Theatre, etc.] | 1913-14 | 764 |
Stannard, William Blake | Eight Bells PH | 1853-55 | 262 |
Rosemary Branch Music Hall and PH | 1860-63 | 673 | |
Stanton, Charles | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1859-68 | 161 |
Stanton, Robert | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1868-75 | 161 |
Stanton, Thomas George | Morpeth Castle PH | 1860-65 | 504 |
Stapley. Arthur | Talbot PH | 1854-57 | 788 |
Stearns, Richard Raynard | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1876-80 | 904 |
Stebbing, William | Shakespeare’s Head PH | 1861-63 | 728 |
Stebbings, Frank | Sebright MH [Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1913-19 | 719 |
Steel, Charles | Royal Edward PH | 1888-91 | 682 |
Steel, Sidney James | West London Theatre [Royal Marylebone Theatre, etc.] | 1915-16 | 853 |
Steele, Charles, Leslie, Henry, and Norton Washington | Opera Comique | 1870-71 | 550 |
Steggall, William Pitt | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1867-75 | 102 |
Steib, Richard George | Sir John Cass PH | 1856-90 | 743 [except 1863-70, licence refused 1890] |
Stenhardt, Conrad | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1855-56 | 898 |
Steinwoolf, Harry | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1912-20 | 560 |
New Lyric MH [Foresters MH] (Bethnal Green) | 1916-17 | 284 | |
Stephens, Frederick | Montpelier Palace / Assembly Rooms | 1909-11 | 501 |
Stephens, John | Black Swan PH | 1854-61 | 83 |
Stephens, Walter | Kilburn Empire (to be erected) | 1905 | 414 [provisional licence] |
Putney Hippodrome [Putney Empire Palace of Varieties] | 1906-07 | 619 | |
Stephens, William | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1878-79 | 100 |
Steptoas, John | Montpelier Tavern | 1856-59 | 501 |
Steptow, John | Crown PH (Bethnal Green) | 1865-74 | 193 |
Stern, Ann | Camel PH | 1876-77 | 129 |
Stevens, Alfred | Crown PH (Shadwell) | 1874-79 | 199 |
Stevens, Ann Murray | Crown PH (Shadwell) | 1866-74 | 199 |
Stevens, Edward Stanner | Crown PH (Shadwell) | 1859-66 | 199 |
Stevens, Ernest | Brixton Theatre | 1905-06 | 108 |
Marlborough Theatre | 1906-16 | 488 | |
Stevens, Esau | Eastnor Castle PH | 1862-65 | 258 |
Stevens, George | Bridge House PH | 1888-90 | 96 |
Stevens, Richard | Star and Garter PH (Leicester Square) | 1858-59 | 762 |
Stevens, Thomas | York and Albany PH | 1854-60 | 907 |
Stevens, William | Queen’s Arms PH (St. Pancras) | 1866-71 | 631 |
Stevens, William Edward | York and Albany PH | 1860-62 | 907 |
Stevenson, Alexander | Leicester Square Theatre (of Varieties) | 1933-37 | 453 |
Stevenson, Henry | Three Horse Shoes PH | 1857-59 | 808 |
Stevenson, John | Shilling Theatre [Grand Theatre, Fulham Theatre] | 1934-35 | 329 |
Stewart, Charles | Lord Duncan PH | 1859-82 | 466 |
Stewart, William Douglas | London Casino [Prince Edward Theatre] | 1937-39 | 135 |
Stichbury, John | Lebeck’s Head PH | 1859-62 | 452 |
Stock, Alfred Charles | Trafalgar PH | 1874-78 | 816 |
Stock, Thomas | Cherry Tree PH (Shoreditch) | 1874-76 | 147 |
Stockley, William | Pakenham PH | 1862-63 | 553 |
Stokes, Edward | Horse Shoe Music Hall | 1869-72 | 392 |
Stokes, Edward | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1873-74 | 80 |
Stoll, Oswald [for Moss Empires] | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1909-11, 1917-19 | 20 |
Stoll, Oswald | New Cross Empire [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1899-1912 | 516 |
Empire Theatre of Varieties [Holloway Empire] | 1899-[?] | 380 | |
Hackney Empire | 1901-42 | 359 | |
London Coliseum | 1904-42 | 461 | |
Shepherd’s Bush Empire | 1905-25 | 730 | |
Broadway Th. | 1909-12 | 109 | |
Finsbury Park Empire | 1909-12 | 278 | |
New Middlesex Th. of Varieties | 1911-12, 1916-19 | 896 | |
Stoll Theatre [London Opera House, etc.] | 1916-42 | 764 | |
Stone, Charles | Three Cups PH (Greenwich) | 1884-90 | 806 |
Stone, Edward Albert | Prince Edward Theatre [London Casino] | 1935-36 | 135 |
[see also: Architects] | Whitehall Theatre | 1935-37 | 884 |
Stone, Thomas | Crooked Billet PH | 1853-54 | 187 |
Stops, Sidney | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1883 | 241 |
Stotem, Joseph George | Swiss Cottage PH (Forest Hill) | 1887-91 | 786 |
Stott, John | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1873-75 | 15 |
Stracey, James | Camel PH | 1871-72 | 129 |
Strange, Frederick | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1865-72 | 22 [licence refused 1870] |
National Theatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1873 | 377 | |
Strange, Frederick | Surrey MH / Surrey Gardens Theatre | 1872-75 | 777 |
Strange, Frederick Bailey | Northumberland Arms PH | 1864-69 | 530 |
Stratford, Esther | Waggon and Horse PH | 1875 | 843 [no formal application] |
Stratton, Joseph James | Old King John’s Head PH | 1856-60 | 539 |
Straus, Percy Weiller [Receiver] | Shoreditch Empire [London MH, etc.] | 1922-24 | 739 |
Strauss, Caroline | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1867-68 | 430 |
Strauss, Louis William | Crown PH (Whitechapel) | 1855-59 | 198 |
King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1859-67 | 430 | |
Strawson, James | Bridge House PH | 1867-74 | 96 |
Stray, Charles | Peckham Grove PH | 1857-59 | 565 |
Streacy, Thomas | Pewter Platter PH (Norton Folgate) | 1855-59 | 572 |
Street, Henry Edward | Trevor Music Hall | 1863-74 | 817 |
Street, Marion | Trevor Music Hall | 1874-75 | 817 |
Street, Robert | Trevor Music Hall | 1854-63 | 817 |
Street, William Stafford and | Artichoke PH (Bethnal Green) Kite, Thomas [later Foresters Music Hall, etc.] | 1870-71 | 284 |
Strutt, James | White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1869-72 | 877 |
Strutton, Benjamin | Adam & Eve PH (Holborn) | 1861-62 | 2 |
Stuart, Henry Paice | Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms and Hotel | 1899-1903 | 757 |
Stubbs, Frederick | White Hart PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1861-64 | 864 |
Stubbs, John Edward | Variety Theatre (Shoreditch) | 1907-09 | 829 |
Stubbs, John Edward Charles | Greenwich Hippodrome [prev. Crowder’s MH, etc.] | 1915-24 | 346 |
Sturch, William | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1874-77 | 526 |
Sturcke, Neclaus [sic] | Brown Bear PH (Whitechapel) | 1866 | 114 [licence refused] |
Such, Herbert | New Queen’s Theatre [Novelty/Kingsway Th.] | 1892-95 | 443 |
Suffrein, Benjamin | Greyhound PH (Greenwich) | 1854-55 | 350 |
Sullivan, Barry | Theatre Royal, Holborn | 1869-70 | 244 |
Sullivan, James | Northampton Arms PH | 1869-72 | 529 |
Sulsh, Lewis | Green Dragon PH | 1853-54 | 338 |
Yorkshire Stingo PH (aka Albion Saloon) | 1854-55 | 910 | |
Suter, William | Prince of Wales PH (Prince of Wales Road, St.Pancras) | 1854-74 | 605 |
Sutton, Charles Thomas | Freemason’s Arms PH (King’s Cross) | 1858-60 | 294 |
Sutton, Charles Pennell | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1898-99 | 697 |
Sutton, Cornelius | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1863-67 | 680 |
Sutton, John | Britannia Commercial Hotel | 1861-63 | 101 |
Swallow, Benjamin Henry | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1881-84 | 783 |
Swanborough, Edward | London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1895-98 | 465 |
Swanborough, Henry V. | (Royal) Strand Theatre | 1861-63 | 766 |
Swanborough, Louisa | (Royal) Strand Theatre | 1858-61 | 766 |
Swanborough, Mary Ann, Mrs. | (Royal) Strand Theatre | 1864-85 | 766 |
Swanborough, William Henry | New Victoria Palace [‘Old Vic’] | 1875-76 | 545 |
(Royal) Strand Theatre | 1863-64 | 766 | |
Swannell, John | Surrey Dock PH | 1874-76 | 780 |
Swanson, John Edward | Railway PH (Woolwich) | 1891 | 641 [Nov. 1891, licence refused] |
Swatton, H.T., Price, W.C., Cannon, Charles, and Cotton, F.K. | Foresters Hall (Finsbury) | 1872-76 | 282 |
[as above less F.K. Cotton] | 1876-77 | . . | |
[as above with T.J. Dawson] | 1877-78 | . . | |
Swatton, H.T., Arnold, Ebenezer, Price, W.C., and Dawson, T.J. | 1878-86 | . . | |
Sweasey, John Samuel | Weston’s / Royal Music Hall | 1868-81 | 376 |
Sweasey, John Samuel and Holland, William | Weston’s / Royal Music Hall | 1866-68 | 376 |
Swinford, James | Manor House | 1891-1903 | 484 |
Swindell, Thomas | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1865-67 | 837 |
Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1867-72 | 352 | |
Sydney, Ellen, Mrs. | Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / West London Theatre, etc.] | 1870 | 853 |
Sydney, George Frederick | Royal Alfred Theatre [Royal Marylebone / | ||
[later wanted for forgery] | West London Theatre, etc.] | 1869-70 | 853 |
Sydney, George Frederick | _ Harcourt, Charles and | . . | 1869 |
Syer, John | Godfrey’s Music Hall [Castle Music Hall] | 1888 | 136 |
Syers, Robert | Strand Musick Hall [later rebuilt as Gaiety Theatre] | 1864-66 | 295 [licence refused 1866] |
Syers, Morris Robert | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1870-76 | 552 |
Sylvester, John James | Horns and Chequers PH | 1885-91 | 390 |
Tabernacle, Charles Blount | Macclesfield Arms PH | 1872-75 | 479 |
Tackley, Robert | Temperance Hall (Somers Town, St. Pancras) | 1856-82 | 794 |
Tankard, Herbert | Sebright MH [Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1919-20 | 719 |
Tanner, James | Duchess of Kent PH | 1875-87 | 223 |
Tanner, William, and Parkes, George | Temperance Hall / Eastern Alhambra MH (Shoreditch) | 1870-75 | 793 |
Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1875-80 | 264 | |
Tanner, William | Montpelier Tavern | 1878-86 | 501 |
Tant, William | Morpeth Castle PH | 1869 | 504 |
Tappenden, John | New Southampton Arms PH | 1882-84 | 521 |
Taylor, Charles William Henry | Eastern Temple [Eastern Temperance Hall] | 1858-61 | 257 |
Taylor, Edward | Prince’s Head PH | 1850-54 | 613 |
Taylor, Edward | Duke of York PH (St. Pancras)` | 1859-60 | 239 |
Taylor, Edwin | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1869-70 | 552 |
Taylor, George Henry | Trafalgar Beer House (City Road) | 1864-70 | 815 |
Taylor. James | Holborn Amphitheatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1877-78 | 377 |
Taylor, John | Henry the Eighth PH | 1853-56 | 373 |
Taylor, John Richard Hunter | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1884 | 375 |
Taylor, William | St. Pancras Coffee Tavern | 1881-82 | 711 |
Taylor, William Thursfield | Bee Hive PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1855-56 | 60 |
Temple, John | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1877-78 | 100 |
Temple, Solomon | Garrick PH [Garrick Hall of Varieties] (Whitechapel) | 1878-82 | 298 |
Temple-West, Temple de la Pole | Surrey Theatre | 1905-18 | 778 |
Tennens, Nat | Grand Theatre (Clapham Junction) | 1946-49 | 330 |
Kilburn Empire | 1947-[?] | 414 | |
Terry, Edward O’Connor | Terry’s Theatre | 1887-1910 | 796 |
Thame, Thomas William | King’s Arms PH (Greenwich) | 1850-51 | 426 |
Thies, George | King’s Head PH (West Norwood) | 1885-87 | 442 |
Thinpenny, Samuel | Pewter Platter PH (Finsbury) | 1862-69 | 571 |
Thoidon, Alfred Aspinall | Paragon Music Hall [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, Mile End Empire etc.] 1887-92 | 494 | |
Thomas, Edwin | London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1891-95 | 465 |
Thomas, George | Britannia Commercial Hotel | 1851-58 | 101 |
Thompson, Thomas | Globe and Pigeons PH [Peabody Arms PH] | 1864-67 | 561 |
Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1868-76 | 381 | |
Thomson, James | Shadwell Dock Coffee House | 1848-50 | 724 |
Thorn(e), Thomas, Montague, Henry James, James, David | Vaudeville Theatre | 1870-71 | 830 |
Thorn, Thomas, James, David and | . . | 1871-81 | . . |
Thorn, Thomas | . . | 1881-92 | . . |
Thorne, Richard Samuel and Richardson, Thomas | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1844-45 | |
Thorne, Richard Samuel | . . | 1845-48, 1849-52 | 560 |
Thornett, John | North Pole PH (Islington) | 1854-56 | 527 |
Thornton, Robert Clint | Carlton PH | 1855-56 | 133 |
Bedford MH | 1861-67 | 58 | |
Thornton, William Herbert | Leicester Square Theatre (of Varieties) | 1931-32 | 453 |
Thurling, Thomas | (Royal) Soho Theatre [Royalty Theatre, etc.] | 1860 | 699 |
Thwaites, Henry | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1874-76 | 904 |
Tibbetts, Frederick William | Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1916-29 | 478 |
Tilbury, James | Temperance Hall (Middlesex St., St. Pancras) | 1856-59 | 792 |
Tildesley, George | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1885-86 | 78 |
Tilley, George | Freemason’s Arms PH (King’s Cross) | 1861-68 | 294 |
Tilling, Charles | Three Crowns PH (Chelsea) | 1857-61 | 803 |
Tilling, George John | Bedford PH | 1859-61 | 57 |
Tilson, William Muskerry | Drill Hall (Wonderland) | 1896 [see East London Theatre] | 255 |
Timms, Joseph | White Lion PH (Shadwell) | 1865-67 | 878 |
Tindall, James Frederick and Villiers, Robert Edwin | South London Music Hall / Palace of Varieties | 1860-62 | 751 |
Tingey, Charles and Tingey, Thomas Hume | Bee Hive PH (Christian St., Stepney) | 1854-55 | 59 |
Titcombe, Richard | Cock and Hoop PH | 1888-90 | 167 |
Tite, James | Morley Coffee Palace | 1884-90 | 503 |
Titterton, George | Regent Music Hall and PH | 1874-75 | 654 |
Tofield, William | Jolly Anglers PH (Finsbury) | 1890 | 407 |
Tolhurst, Samuel | New Queen’s Theatre [Novelty/Kingsway Th.]1891 | 443 | |
Tollady, William John | Sugar Loaf PH (Mile End New Town) | 1862-63 | 770 |
Tomalin, George | Cumberland Head & Green Gate PH | 1885-90 | 206 |
Tomkins, Abraham Hanwell | John Bull PH | 1864-69 | 405 |
Tomkins, George [licence refused] | Northumberland Arms PH | 1874 | 530 |
Tomsson, John and Perry, Thomas Gilbert | Novelty Theatre | 1895-96 | 443 |
Toole, John Lawrence | Toole’s Theatre [formerly Folly Th., etc.] | 1879-95 | 814 |
Toombs, Albert | Bank of Friendship PH | 1882-86 | 47 |
Toombs, Benjamin | Black Bull PH (Southwark) | 1867-68 | 74 |
Toombs, Emma | Bank of Friendship PH | 1886-[?]88 | 47 |
Toomer, James | Manor House | 1852-71 | 484 |
Towers, Henry Robert | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1882-89 | 526 |
Towers, Joseph Johnson | (Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1855-62 | 545 |
Townsend, Robert | Henry the Eighth PH | 1857 [licence refused] | 373 |
Towsey, James | Grasshopper PH | 1856-61 | 334 |
Treadwell, Gabriel | Eight Bells PH | 1858-60 | 262 |
Trebilco, Richard John | Balham Hippodrome | 1938-39 | 46 |
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm | Haymarket, Theatre Royal | 1888, 1889-96 | 371 |
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1897-1917 | 375 | |
Treeby, Thomas | Camel PH | 1878-79 | 128 |
Trehearne, James | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1855-59 | 323 |
Trehearne, Susannah | Golden Lion PH and Palace of Varieties (Lower Sydenham) | 1859-? | 323 |
Tressidder, John Arthur | Paragon Music Hall [Eagle PH, Lusby’s MH, Mile End Empire etc.] | 1892-94 | 494 |
Trew, Abraham | Adam & Eve PH (Clerkenwell) | 1856-60 | 3 |
Trimble, Henry | Pier PH | 1866-73 | 584 records for 1861-65 missing] |
Tritton, Robert | Nag’s Head PH (Westminster) | 1851-59 | 510 |
Trotman, Alfred | Bedford MH | 1870-77 | 58 |
Trundle, Francis | Old Mermaid PH | 1873 | 541 |
Trundle Arms PH | 1886-87 | 820 | |
Trundle, Harriet Sarah | Trundle Arms PH | 1887-90 | 820 |
Tubb, Charles | Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1873-74 | 839 |
Tubbs, William Thomas | Old Fountain PH | 1869-71 | 538 |
Tucker, Harry | White Swan PH (Mile End) | 1866-75 | 881 |
Tucker, William Alfred | Lord Raglan MusicHall and PH (Plumstead) | 1876-81 | 472 |
Tufnell, James | Builders Arms PH (Chelsea) | 1856-59 | 117 |
Tugby, Sharp | Victoria PH (Morpeth Rd., Bethnal Green) | 1865-76 | 838 |
Tullien, Louis George | Lyceum Theatre | 1843-44 | 476 |
Tunstall, John Edward | Baxter Arms PH | 1878-80 | 54 |
Turnbull, Priscilla | Globe and Pigeons PH [Peabody Arms PH] | 1861-64 | 561 |
Turner, Alfred | Royal Court Theatre | 1923-35 | 679 |
Turner, Frederick James | Waldorf Theatre [Whitney Th., Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1906-07 | 765 |
Turner, Henry Thomas | White Horse PH (St. Marylebone) | 1862-63 | 869 |
Turner, John | Princess Concert Room | 1848-51 | 614 |
Turner, Samuel | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1855-64 | 234 |
Turner, Samuel | Windsor Castle Music Hall and PH / Turner’s Music Hall (Camberwell) | 1873-80 | 890 |
Turner, Thomas | Prince’s Hall of Varieties | 1860-71 | 611 |
Turner, Thomas | Clapton Park Theatre / Hackney Theatre | 1875-?84 | 360 |
Turner, William | Castle PH (Islington) | 1861-62 | 137 |
Turnham, George and Adams, Samuel | Philharmonic Hall | 1865-67 | 400 |
Turnham, John | White Lion PH [Metropolitan Music Hall] | 1862-63 | 493 |
Turnham, Joseph | Rising Sun PH (St. Pancras) | 1861 | 660 [licence refused, house burnt down] |
Turnham, William | Sebright Music Hall [Sebright Arms PH, Belmont’s Sebright, etc.] | 1874-80 | 719 |
Tustin, William | Empire Cinema (Empire Theatre, Leicester Square) | 1929-32 | 266 |
Twentyman, Philip Brown | Sussex Arms PH (Hackney) | 1854-63 | 781 |
Twocock, Robert | Clay Hall PH | 1860-75 | 160 |
Twocock, Sarah Jane | Clay Hall PH | 1875-77 | 160 |
Tyler, Spencer William Thomas | Royal Holborn Empire | 1890-92 | 376 |
Tyler, William | Royal Surrey Gardens | 1849-56 | 696 |
Tyler, William | New Clown PH | 1852-59 | 515 |
Tyson, Charles | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1866-72 | 695 |
Tyzack, Samuel | New Eastern Alhambra | 1861-63 | 518 |
Udell, William | Rosemary Branch MH [Lovejoy’s MH, Peckham Th. of Varieties, etc.] | 1867-72 | 564 |
Ufindell, William | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1855-56 | 92 |
Underhill, Henry | Two Brewers PH (Holborn) | 1860-61 | 824 |
Underwood, Henry Thomas [sometimes ‘Harry Thomas Underwood’] | Crown Theatre [Peckham Hippodrome / Gaumont Cinema] | 1912-24 | 563 |
Camden Theatre / Camden Hippodrome | 1913-15 | 127 | |
Greenwich Hippodrome [prev. Crowder’s MH, etc.] | 1913-15 | 346 | |
Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1915-18 | 702 | |
Britannia Theatre | 1915-23 | 105 | |
Holloway Empire | 1916-[?] | 380 | |
Dalston Theatre / Gaumont Theatre | 1922-23 | 208 | |
Upson, Robert Daniel | White Lion PH (Wapping) | 1856-57 | 876 |
Upton, Hammond | Fountain PH (Woolwich) | 1852-60 | 288 |
Upward, George Frederick | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1881-82 | 14 |
Vagg, Anne | Collins’ Music Hall | 1865-68 | 168 |
Vagg, Samuel [k.a. Sam Collins] | Marylebone Music Hall | 1858-61 | 491 |
Collins’ Music Hall | 1863-65 | 168 | |
Vail, William | Gun PH (Woolwich) | 1873-74 | 357 |
Vale, John [Official Receiver] | Royal Connaught Theatre [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1879-80 | 377 |
Vallance, Alfred Robert | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1884-85 | 744 |
Vallance, Mary Ann | Sir John Falstaff Music Hall and PH | 1885-88 | 744 |
Vallon, Henry | Lord Raglan MusicHall and PH (Plumstead) | 1885-?89 | 472 |
Valuay, Ernest, | Royal Holborn Theatre | 1873-74 | 244 |
. . and Petron, Alexis | Princess’s Theatre (2nd building) | 1874 | 616 |
Vanderkiste, Elizabeth | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1874-76 | 92 |
Vanderkiste, Frederick | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1872-74 | 92 |
Vaughan, Frederick | Baxter Arms PH | 1875-76 | 54 |
Vaughan, Tom Benjamin | St. James’s Theatre | 1926-28 | 705 |
The Playhouse | 1927-28 | 588 | |
Van Damm, Vivian | Windmill Theatre | 1944-[?] | 889 |
Van Hoydonck, Constant | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1891-92 | 697 |
Vant, Henry Sargent | Lord Raglan MusicHall and PH (Plumstead) | 1866-67 | 472 |
Veale, William | White Horse PH (Stratford, Bow) | 1865-69 | 874 |
Vedrenne, John Eugene | Queen’s Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue) | 1907-08 | 626 |
Royalty Theatre (Soho) | 1911-19 | 699 | |
Little Theatre | 1920 | 458 | |
Comedy Theatre | 1922-24 | 170 | |
Venner, George | Oriental Palace of Varieties / Camberwell Palace | 1897-1910 | 124 |
Venner, Mary Maria | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1858-60 | 784 |
Venters, James | Coach and Horses PH (Stepney) | 1876-77 | 161 |
Vezey, Joseph P. | Castle PH (Islington) | 1864 | 137 [licence refused] |
Vian, John | Bald Faced Stag PH | 1885-90 | 44 |
Vicary, Alfred Baker | Exmouth Arms PH | 1868-69 | 275 [1869 refused on police report] |
Vickery, Richard | Royal Albert PH | 1861-63 | 675 |
Vickress, Henry Thomas | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1879-81 | 14 |
Vigurs, George | Two Brewers PH (Westminster) | 1863-66 | 824 |
Old Swan PH | 1866-73 | 543 | |
Villiers, Edwin Adam | London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1890-91 | 465 |
Villiers, Frederic | Canterbury Hall | 1871-80 | 129 |
Villiers, Robert Edwin | South London Music Hall / Palace of Varieties | 1862-73 | 751 |
London Pavilion (Tichborne St.) | 1879-85 | 464 | |
London Pavilion (Piccadilly Circus) | 1886-90 | 465 | |
. . and Tindall, James Frederick | South London Music Hall / Palace of Varieties | 1860-62 | 751 |
Vincent, Miss Eliza | (Royal) Victoria Theatre [‘Old Vic’] | 1851-55 | 545 |
Vincent, Ernest A. and B. & J. Theatres Ltd | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1939-[?41] | 454 |
Vincent, Ernest A. and British Union Varieties Ltd | Lewisham Hippodrome | 1943-44 | 454 |
Vincent, Henry James | Brecknock Arms PH | 1851-52 | 94 |
Vine, John Challis | Britannia Theatre | 1913-17 | 105 |
Vining, George James | Princess’s Theatre (1st /2nd buildings) | 1863-70 | 616 |
Vint, Will Harold | White Swan PH (Deptford) | 1891 | 880 |
Virgo, John Thomas | Queen’s Theatre (Battersea) [Park Town Hall & Th., etc.] | 1890-96 | 625 |
Vote, James Kent | Kingsland, Dalston & De Beauvoir Lit. Inst. | 1850-53 | 11 |
Vyse, Walter | Old Mermaid PH | 1876 | 541 |
Wade, Joseph | Crown Music Hall (Clerkenwell) | 1852-56 | 191 |
Wadham, John Thomas | Westminster Temperance Hall | 1875-76 | 856 |
Wadham, Samuel Thomas | Twentieth Century Theatre (Bayswater) [Victoria Hall, Bijou Theatre] | 1871-73 | 823 |
Wadkin, Elizabeth | Alma MH | 1879-82 | 23 |
Wake, Richard | Royal Standard Music Hall | 1877-97 | 834 |
Wakelin, John | Pitman’s Arm’s PH | 1873-74 | 585 |
Wakeling, Henry | Navy Arms PH | 1884-88 | 512 |
Wale, Frances Sarah | Bayswater PH | 1856-58 | 55 |
Wale, John David | Bayswater PH | 1858-60 | 55 |
Wale, William | Bayswater PH | 1848-56 | 55 |
Manor House PH | 1856-62 | 485 | |
Wale, William Walter | New Vauxhall Gardens | 1864-67 | 522 |
Wales, Charles Frederick | Everyman Cinema Theatre | 1933-34 | 274 |
Walford, Walter Swift | Duchess of Clarence PH | 1848-50 | 222 |
Prince Edward PH | 1854-62 | 597 [licence not renewed owing to death of Walford] | |
Walk, Livingstone | Prince of Wales Music Hall and PH (Lambeth) | 1876-78 | 601 |
Walker, Charles | Baxter Arms PH | 1868-71 | 54 |
Walker, George | Borough MH | 1870-77 | 90 |
Walker, Henry | Goldsmith’s Arms PH | 1879-81 | 325 [1881, petition arrived too late to be granted] |
Walker, Joseph Henry _ People’s Entertainment | New Cross Empire Society Ltd. and [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1947-49 | 516 |
Walker, Thomas | Camel PH | 1875-76 | 129 |
Walker, William | King’s Arms PH (Shoreditch) | 1860-62 | 423 [1862 licence refused] |
Walker, William | Apollo MH | 1861 | 32 [licence refused] |
Wallace, Alexander Andrew | Builders Arms PH (Isle of Dogs, Poplar) | 1887-91 | 118 |
Wallace, Harry | Britannia MH (Blackfriars Rd., Southwark) | 1880-85 | 97 |
Wallace, Rowland Henry [given as “Wallis” q.v. 1871] | |||
Wallace, Violet Ethel | Wyndham’s Theatre | 1931-32 | 905 |
Wallack, James William | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1853-55 | 853 |
Wallbutton, Robert | Amersham Hall (Deptford) | 1885-88 | 26 |
Wallcraft, Kate | Adam & Eve PH (Clerkenwell) | 1874-75 | 3 |
Waller, John | John Bull PH | 1870-71 | 405 |
Waller, Joseph | Peacock PH | 1870-77 | 562 |
Waller, Lewis and Morell, Henry Harvey | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1895-96 | 725 |
Wallis, Frank | Elephant and Castle Theatre [Th. Royal, Elephant and Castle] | 1874 | 264 |
Wallis, Frederick Samuel | Black Dog PH (Bethnal Green) | 1890 | 76 |
Wallis, Rowland Henry | Sussex Arms PH (Poplar) | 1865-67 | 782 |
Priory PH | 1868-72 | 617 | |
Walls, Tom | Aldwych Theatre | 1927-33 | 17 |
Fortune Theatre | 1927-30 | 285 [?defaulted on mortgage] | |
Walls, Tom and Henson, Leslie | Aldwych Theatre | 1922-27 | 17 |
Walsh, Mary Catherine | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1882-84 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | see | 739 | |
Walter, Alfred | Green Dragon PH | 1879-87 | 338 |
Walter, Matilda Mead | Crooked Billet PH | 1879-85 | 187 |
Walter, Thomas | Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall | 1845-79 | 906 |
Green Dragon PH (Ratcliff) | 1850-52, 1854-55, 1856-79 | 338 | |
Walter, Alfred | Ye Olde Green Dragon PH / Green Dragon Music Hall | 1879-87 | 906 |
Walters, Alfred | Grosvenor Arms PH | 1855-56 | 354 |
Wanner, James | Helvetia Music Hall | 1884-85 | 372 |
Wanthier, Jules | Oxford Theatre [Oxford Music Hall] | 1859-60 | 552 |
Three Neats’ Tongues PH | 1861-64 | 811 | |
Ward, Charles Borthwick | Duke of Wellington PH (Shepherd Street, Christchurch) | 1864-68 | 236 |
Ward, Francis | White Hart PH (Chelsea) | 1848-69 | 865 |
Ward, Frederick | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1858-63 | 92 |
Ward, James | Rose and Shamrock PH (Shadwell) | 1856-57 | 672 |
Ward, James and Grumbridge, George | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1857-59 | 15 |
Ward, John | Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1854-63 | 381 |
Ward, John | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1885-86 | 702 |
Ward, Mary Ann | Three Cups PH & MH [Bow Palace] | 1863-65 | 92 |
Ward, Moses Mercer | Hope PH (St. Pancras) | 1879 (through 1888) | 386 |
Ward, William John | Cumberland Head & Green Gate PH | 1860-69 | 206 |
Wardhaugh, John | Bee Hive PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1856-57 | 60 |
Warden, Harry and | Kilburn Empire | 1906-08 | 414 |
Chilcott, Stanley [provisional licence] | arry andH | ||
Ware, Robert | Jack Straw’s Castle PH | 1856-75 | 402 |
Warner, James Leftwich | White Hart PH (Holborn) | 1887-91 | 863 |
Warner, Robert, Greenwood, Thomas Longden, and Phelps, Samuel | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1845-46 | 702 |
Warner, Robert William | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1847-48 | 853 |
Warner, William | Beckford’s Head PH | 1875-76 | 56 |
Warr, Charles | Duke of Wellington PH (Holloway) | 1855-62 | 237 [1862, no application] |
Warren, Henry George | Prince Alfred PH | 1880-83 | 595 |
Wastell, Walter | New Vauxhall Gardens | 1867-73 | 522 |
Waterhouse, Jonathan Saul | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1892-97 | 697 |
Waters, (?) Charles | Havering atte Bower PH | 1860-61 | 370 |
Waters, David Charles | Havering atte Bower PH | 1859-60 | 370 |
Watkins, Charles Frederick | Windsor Castle PH (Bethnal Green) | 1858-72 | 891 |
Watkins, Cornelius David | Freemason’s Arms PH (King’s Cross) | 1860-61 | 294 |
Queen’s Head PH | 1861-63 | 633 | |
Watkins, Geoffrey | Bishop Bonner PH | 1882-83 | 72 |
Watkins, Henry | (Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1887-89 | 588 |
Watkins, Joshua | John of Jerusalem PH | 1870-75 | 406 |
Watkins, Samuel | Duke of Wellington PH (Shepherd Street, Christchurch) | 1860-64 | 236 |
Watkinson, George William | Duchess of Kent PH | 1868-75 | 223 |
Watkinson, Isabella | Albion PH (Hackney) | 1873-74 | 14 |
Watkinson, Isabelle | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1870-72 | 80 |
Watkinson, Thomas George | Swan PH (Shoreditch) | 1854-58 | 784 |
Wolverley Arms PH | 1857-60 | 897 | |
Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1867-70 | 80 | |
Watson, Alfred | Cheshire Cheese PH | 1861-64 | 149 |
Watson, Donald Sinclair | Town Hall [later Hammersmith Palace of Varieties] | 1880-81 | 363 |
Watson, Horace | Haymarket, Theatre Royal | 1927-35 | 371 |
Watson, James | Cheshire Cheese PH | 1861-64 | 149 |
Watson, Stuart | Haymarket, Theatre Royal | 1935 (through 1950) | 371 |
Watson, William | Navy Arms PH | 1876-84 | 512 |
Watts, Benjamin | Admiral Keppel PH | 1852-59 | 7 |
Watts, Henry | Collins’ Music Hall | 1868-81 | 168 |
Watts, Walter | Royal Marylebone Theatre [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1848-50 | 853 |
Watts, Walter | Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 2nd building] | 1849-50 | 549 |
Weatherly, Andrew | Windsor Castle Music Hall and PH (Camberwell) | 1862-64 | 890 |
Weatherly, Andrew | Victoria PH (Hampstead) | 1866-67 | 835 |
Weatherly, Charles Henry | Albert Palace | 1886-87 | 8 |
Weatherly, William | St. John of Jerusalem PH | 1859-61 | 706 |
Weaver, George Pike | Green Man PH (Plumstead Village) | 1874-95 | 344 |
Webb, Frank Sydney and Parl[sic] Theatrical | New Cross Empire Productions, Ltd. and [Deptford Empire Th. of Varieties] | 1949-[?] | 516 |
Webb, George | Empire Cinema (Empire Theatre, Leicester Square) | 1932-35 | 266 |
Webb, Henry | Hope Music Hall | 1861-65 | 384 |
Webb, Henry | Sun PH (Holborn) | 1865-66 | 773 |
Webb, Isabella | Alma MH | 1900-[?]03 | 23 |
Webb, John | Alma MH | 1897-1900 | 23 |
Webb, John | Griffin PH (Leonard St., Shoreditch) | 1874-76 | 352 |
Webb, John Allison | Leicester Square Theatre (of Varieties) | 1937-39 | 453 |
Piccadilly Theatre | 1944-? | 581 | |
Webb, William | Ship PH (Islington) | 1852-54 | 731 |
Webb, William | Railway Hotel & PH (Putney) | 1884-88 | 637 |
Webb, William | Empire Cinema (Empire Theatre, Leicester Square) | 1929-32 | 266 |
Webb, William and Parsons, Alan | Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket) | 1918-23 | 375 |
Webster, Benjamin | Little Theatre in the Haymarket [Th. Royal] | 1843-53 | 371 |
Th. R., Adelphi | 1844-74 | 6 | |
St. James’s Theatre | 1864 | 705 | |
Olympic Theatre (2nd building) | 1864-69 | 549 | |
Princess’s Theatre (2nd building) | 1870-73 | 616 | |
Webster, George | Lyceum Theatre | 1858 | 476 |
Webster, John William | Percy Arms PH | 1875-79 | 568 |
Weeks, Frank | South London Palace of Varieties | 1902-07 | 751 |
Weige, George Frederick | Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1886-90 | 832 |
Welch, James | Peckham Grove PH | 1859-73 | 565 |
Weldon, Charles | Royal Amphitheatre and Circus [later Holborn Theatre, etc.] | 1872-73 | 377 |
Wells, Cecil and De Frece Vaudeville Entertainments Ltd | Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) | 1935 | 477 |
Wells, George | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1873-74 | 904 |
Queen’s Head PH | 1875-76 | 633 | |
Vicar of Wakefield PH | 1877-79 | 832 | |
Wells, Henry | Canterbury Th. of Varieties | 1909-14 | 129 |
Wells, Henry James | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1862-63 | 431 |
Wells, John | Crown PH (Shadwell) | 1858-59 | 199 |
Wells, Thomas | Pegasus PH | 1852-56 | 566 |
Welshman, John | Globe PH (Deptford) | 1877-82 | 312 |
Went, James | Black Dog PH (Lambeth) | 1854-57 | 78 |
Went, Samuel Archibald | Manor Theatre | 1893-1903 | 483 |
Wentworth, Charles | Garrick Theatre (Leman Street, Whitechapel) | 1880-81 | 300 |
Wentworth, George | Eight Bells PH | 1855-57 | 262 |
Wentzell, Andrew | Ship PH (Lambeth) | 1850-67 | 732 |
Werner, Philip | Royal Crown PH | 1862 [licence refused] | 681 |
Wesley, Thomas Alexander | Royal Standard PH (Kingsland Road) | 1854-56 | 694 |
West, Albert and Cave, Joseph Henry Arnold | New Victoria Palace [‘Old Vic’] | 1878-80 | 545 [written as ‘John’ Henry Arnold Cave] |
West, Albert – Cave, John [sic] and | Royal Marylebone Theatre [? Joseph] [West London Theatre, etc.] | 1878-83 | 853 |
West, Edward | Three Crowns PH (North Woolwich) | 1866-87 | 804 |
West, Edward Alexander | King’s Arms PH (St. Luke’s) | 1880-82 | 431 |
West, Emma | Three Crowns PH (North Woolwich) | 1901-03 | 804 |
West, John | Weaver’s Arms PH | 1855-59 | 849 |
West, George | Sun and Sawyers and Royal Exchange PH | 1866-83 | 774 |
Westcott, Henry Anthony | Lansdowne Arms PH [Collins’ Music Hall] | 1852-55 | 168 |
Westcott, John Matthew | Bridge House PH | 1849- ? | 96 |
Westgarth, John | Royal Cricketers PH [Hosford Arms PH] | 1880-84 | 680 |
Westlake, Lionel Trevor | Grafton Theatre (Tottenham Court Road) | 1937-38 | 328 |
Weston, Benjamin Dent | Empire Music Hall / Walworth Empire [Montpelier Palace] | 1903-07 | 501 |
Weston, Edward | Weston’s [National] Music Hall | 1857-66 | 376 |
Bedford MH | 1867-68 | 58 | |
[bankrupt trade assignees of (George Forbes, E.A. Chaston and H. Kelly)] | Bedford MH | 1868-70 | 58 |
Weston, James | Three Neats’ Tongues PH | 1856-58 | 811 |
Weston, William | Printer’s Arms PH | 1860-62 | 618 |
Westover, George | Prince Albert PH (Shoreditch) | 1862-64 | 594 |
Wetherby, William | Sun Music Hall | 1851-52 | 771 |
Whalley, Alfred Till | Camel PH | 1888-90 | 128 |
Wharton, William | Surprise PH (Christchurch Terr., Chelsea) | 1870-71 | 776 |
Wheeler, John | Helvetia Music Hall | 1872-77 | 372 |
Wheeler, John | Camden Arms PH | 1876-82 | 126 |
Wheeler, Frank | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1897-98 | 243 |
Wheeler, Raymond | Cardinal Wolsey PH | 1859-61 | 132 |
Wheeler, Robert | Britannia MH & PH (Tooley St.) | 1878-81 | 98 |
Wheeler, Worland Sidney | Collins’ Music Hall | 1934-36 | 168 |
Wheeler, William | Queen’s Arms PH (Islington) | 1854-56 | 628 |
Wheeler, William | Britannia PH (Commercial Rd., Stepney) | 1863, [application not granted] 1864-65 | 101 |
Whichelo, Frederick Weidenback | Edinboro’ Castle PH (Regent’s Park) | 1857-58 | 259 |
Whichelo, George | Queen’s Park Hall | 1890-[?]1903 | 634 |
White, Alfred Brearey | Windmill PH | 1883-84 | 888 |
White, Edwin Charles | Prince Albert PH (Shoreditch) | 1852-58 | 594 |
White, Edwin Charles | Victoria PH (Hampstead) | 1857-66 | 835 |
White, Frank | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1878-79 | 783 |
White, Horace Stanley | London Palladium | 1940-47 | 463 |
Holborn Empire | 1940-43 | 376 | |
Prince of Wales Theatre (Coventry Street, Piccadilly) (2nd building) | 1942-47 | 607 | |
White, Philip | Yorkshire Grey PH | 1858-61 | 909 |
White, Thomas | Britannia PH (Hackney) | 1880-85 | 102 |
White, Thomas Batten | Duke of Wurtemburg PH | 1864-69 | 238 [1869, not renewed] |
White, William | Morpeth Castle PH | 1855-57 | 504 |
Whitehead, Gerald George | Canterbury Hall | 1881-82 | 129 |
Whitehead, James | World’s End PH (Mile End, Old Town) | 1881-83 | 904 |
Whiteley, John | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1851-62 | 65 |
Whiteman, Joseph | Hope and Anchor PH | 1854-57 | 387 |
Whiter, Francis | Queen’s Head PH | 1876-77 | 633 |
Whiter, William Henry | Earl of Aberdeen PH (Bethnal Green) | 1860-61 | 252 |
Northumberland Arms PH | 1869-74 | 530 | |
Whitmarsh, Ann | Green Man Hotel (Blackheath) | 1850-? | 342 [records missing, 1861-65] |
Whitmore, John Prescod | Three Horse Shoes PH | 1856-57 | 808 |
Whitney, Frederick Clark | Waldorf Theatre / Whitney Theatre [Strand Th., Novello Th.] | 1911-12 | 765 |
Whittet, Alexander | PH and Assembly Rooms (Lambeth) | 1866-73 | 388 |
Whowell, George | Waggon and Horse PH | 1871-72 | 843 |
Whyte, George | Catherine Wheel PH | 1851-52 | 142 |
Wickens, Samuel | Prince of Wales PH (Finsbury) | 1851-66 | 602 |
Jerusalem PH | 1863-74 | 403 | |
Wickers, George Frederick | Green Dragon PH (Poplar High Street) | 1860-68 | 337 |
Wickes, Henry | Sun and Sawyers and Royal Exchange PH | 1886-[?] | 774 |
Wicks, William | Jolly Anglers PH (Hackney) | 1852-64 | 408 |
Wickstead, Hugh | Fox and Cock PH | 1856-57 | 290 |
Widows, Charles | Old Will Summers PH | 1852-59 | 547 |
Wier, Henry George | First Surrey Light Horse MH | 1888-90 | 279 |
Wigan, Alfred | Olympic Theatre 2nd building | 1853-57 | 549 |
St. James’s Theatre | 1860-62 | 705 | |
(New) Queen’s Theatre (Long Acre) | 1867-68 | 623 | |
Wigan, Horace | Olympic Theatre 2nd building | 1864-66 | 549 |
Royal Holborn Theatre [Mirror Theatre] | 1875-76 | 244 | |
Opera Comique | 1876 | 550 | |
St. James’s Theatre | 1876 | 705 | |
Princess’s Theatre (2nd building) | 1876-77 | 616 | |
Wilby, Robert | Mother Shipton PH | 1854-57 | 507 |
Crown PH (Clerkenwell) | 1859-60 | 195 | |
Wilcocks, Joseph Willing | Windsor Castle PH (? Vauxhall Bridge Rd. Howard also gives “St. George, Hanover Sq.”) | 1861-64 | 894 |
Wilcox, Thomas | see _ Wil(l)cox, Thomas (below) | ||
Wilcox, Zebedee | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1869-73 | 690 |
Wild, Henry William | Island Queen PH | 1857-60 | 399 |
Wilde, Henry John and Greet, Philip Ben | Parkhurst Theatre | 1898-1902 | 558 |
Wilde, William, Jnr | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1861-65 | 22 |
Wildee, Philip | Ironmonger’s Arms PH (Old Street) | 1851-61 | 397 |
Wildey, John | Blue Anchor PH (Westminster) | 1854-55 | 87 |
Wiley, Edmond Henry | London Opera House / National Th. of England [Stoll Theatre] | 1915-17 | 764 |
Wilkes, Charles Ambrose | North London Colosseum [Dalston Theatre] | 1888-90 | 208 |
(Royal) Cambridge Music Hall | 1897-1903 | 677 | |
Wilkin, Henry | Abbey PH | 1857-64 | 1 |
Wilkins, Henry | Woodman PH (Chelsea) | 1854-55 | 898 |
Wilkinson, Gilbert Robinson | St. George’s Hall | 1871-72 | 703 |
Wilkinson, James Watson | Imperial Theatre [formerly (Royal) Aquarium Theatre] | 1891-1903 | 396 |
Wilkinson, Thomas William | Rising Sun PH (Fulham) | 1863-66 | 661 |
Willard, Edward and Lart, John | Shaftesbury Theatre | 1889-90 | 725 |
Willard, Henry | Bedford Arms Tavern & Tea Garden | 1848-52 | 58 |
Wil(l)cox, Thomas | Duke of York PH (Pimlico) | 1851-63 | 241 |
Willes, Thomas | Seymour Arms PH | 1855-57 | 723 |
Willer, James | Angel PH (Stepney) | 1855-56 | 30 |
Willer, Jane | Bee Hive PH (Deptford) | 1858-59 | 61 |
Willey, George | Mulberry Tree Music Hall and PH | 1894 | 508 |
Williams, Alfred Edmund Spalding | Railway Hotel (Islington) | 1874-75 | 636 |
Williams, Charles Edward | Golden Eagle PH (Shadwell) | 1863-65 | 321 |
Williams, Daniel | Crown & Anchor PH (St. Pancras) | 1860-70 | 203 |
Williams, Edwin | Sun Music Hall | 1854-81 | 771 |
Williams, Eliza | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1859-62 | 277 |
Williams, Frederick | New Grand Theatre of Varieties (Clapham Junction) [Grand Theatre] | 1905-10, 1911-12 | 330 |
Williams, George Ernest | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1911-16 | 20 |
Williams, John | Grand Theatre of Varieties (Clapham Junction) [Grand Theatre] | 1912-25 | 330 |
Granville Theatre of Varieties | 1914-39 | 333 | |
Williams, John Henry | Griffin PH and Music Hall (Shoreditch High Street) | 1884-85 | 353 |
[later London Music Hall, & reconstructed, Shoreditch Empire] | see | 739 | |
Williams, Romer | St. James’s Theatre | 1889-90 | 705 |
Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street, Strand) | 1898-1900 | 316 | |
Williamson, William | Green Man PH (Plumstead Village) | 1866-74 | 344 |
Willis, Edward | Willis’s Pier Music Hall [Pier PH] | 1873-86 | 584 |
Willis, William | Manchester Arms PH | 1862-63 | 482 |
Willmore, Nathaniel Webb | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1870-71 | 42 |
Willoughby, Deborah | Cranbourn PH | 1858-60 | 183 |
Willoughby, Richard | Cranbourn PH | 1854-58 | 183 |
Wills, James Henry | Albion PH (Hammersmith) | 1849-51 | 12 |
Willsment, Simon | Castle PH (St. Pancras) | 1851-53 | 140 |
Willson, Henry | Sun Music Hall | 1881-83 | 771 |
Willson, John | Surprise PH (Caversham Sq., Chelsea) | 1856-58 | 775 |
Wilmot, Charles | Philharmonic Theatre / Grand Theatre, Islington | 1883-96 | 400 |
Mirror Theatre [Royal Holborn Theatre] | 1878-80 | 244 [theatre burnt down 4 June, 1880] New Olympic Theatre 3rd building | |
Wilmot, Charles | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1895-96 | |
. . and Freeman, Henry A. | . . | 1890-92 | 702 [Nov. 1892, LCC licence refused] |
Wilmot, Charlotte | New Olympic Theatre 3rd building | 1896-99 | 549 |
Wilshear, Edward | York Minster Music Hall and PH | 1892-97 | 908 |
Wilson, Alfred | Jew’s Harp PH | 1864 [licence refused] | 404 |
Wilson, Alfred | Prince of Brunswick PH | 1882-91 | 599 |
Wilson, Charles | Surprise PH (Christchurch Terr., Chelsea) | 1871-77 | 776 |
Wilson, Charles | Peacock PH | 1877-80 | 562 |
Wilson, Frederick | Philharmonic Theatre | 1877 | 400 |
Wilson, George | Three Horse Shoes PH | 1855 | 808 |
Wilson, Helen Eliza | Peacock PH | 1880-81 | 562 |
Wilson, Henry Edward | Saberton Arms PH | 1871-74 | 701 |
King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1874-75 | 430 | |
Wilson, John | Westminster Arms PH (Bethnal Green) | 1874-77 | 855 |
Wilton, John [management, no licensing records at LCC] | Wilton’s Music Hall [Albion Saloon / Mahogany Bar] | to 1869 | 886 |
Wilton, Marie and James, Charles James | Prince of Wales Theatre [later rebuilt as Scala Th.] | 1869-71 | 717 |
Winder, Edwin | Middlesex MH | 1851-64 | 896 |
Metropolitan Music Hall | 1867-71 | 493 | |
Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1890 | 22 | |
Winder, John | New Southampton Arms PH | 1872-77 | 521 |
Windett, William [Executor to the late Dannit, James Isaac, q.v.] | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1863 | 690 |
Windmill, Thomas | Jew’s Harp PH | 1862-63 | 404 |
Wingate, Harold Hyam | Comedy Theatre | 1948 | 170 |
Winn, Ann Henrietta | Black Horse PH (Shoreditch) | 1872-73 | 80 |
Winn, Stephen | Amersham Hall (Deptford) | 1890-96 | 26 |
Winne, St. John | White Swan PH (Deptford) | 1888-91 | 880 |
Winningale, William | Eastern Temple / Eastern Temperance Hall | 1861-70 | 257 |
Winson, John Richard | Crown PH (Stepney) | 1865-66 | 195 |
Winter, Eugene | Balham Empire | 1908-09 | 45 |
Winter, Joseph Thomas | Hop and Grapes PH (St. George in the East) | 1852-53 | 381 |
Winyard, William | King’s Head PH (Shoreditch) | 1871-74 | 438 |
Wise, James | Assembly House PH | 1848-50 | 37 |
Wise, Mary | Assembly House PH | 1850-52 | 37 |
Wiskar, Robert | Monarch PH | 1861-63 | 499 |
Witherall, George | Cherry Tree PH (Shoreditch) | 1890-91 | 147 |
Withers, James | Victoria PH and Tea Garden (Grove Rd., Bethnal Green)) | 1860-61 | 837 |
Wocha, George | Duke of Clarence PH (Shoreditch) | 1876-82 | 228 |
Wogan, Judith | Grafton Theatre (Tottenham Court Road) | 1930-37 | 328 |
Wolfe, George Henry | Castle Music Hall | 1882-83 | 136 |
Wolfe, Mark | Kingsway Theatre | 1936-38 | 443 |
Wollond, John | Britannia PH (City Road) | 1872-74 | 100 |
Wontner, Hugh Walter Kingwell | Savoy Theatre (2nd building) | 1948-[?] | 716 |
Wood, Charles | Baxendale Arms PH | 1891-93 | 53 |
Wood, Charles Thomas | Duke of York PH (St. Pancras)` | 1854-58 | 239 |
Wood, Edward | Middlesex MH | 1864-66 | 896 |
Wood, George | Blockmaker’s Arms PH | 1874-78, 1882-85 | 84 |
Wood, George | (Royal) Avenue Theatre [The Playhouse] | 1882-87 | 588 |
Wood, John | Star and Garter PH (Leicester Square) | 1862 | 762 [licence refused] |
Wood, Mrs. John | St. James’s Theatre | 1869-74, 1875, 1876-77 | 705 |
Wood, Joseph | Bell PH (St.George St., Stepney) | 1883-84 | 65 |
Wood, Mary Elizabeth | Devonshire Castle PH | 1860-61 | 215 |
Wood, Matilda Caroline [?] and Chudleigh, Arthur | Royal Court Theatre | 1890-93 | 679 |
Wood, Matilda Charlotte [?] | Royal Court Theatre | 1903-05 | 679 |
Wood, William, Montague, David and | Princess Concert Room | 1851-63 | 614 |
Woodford, Henry William | Alhambra (Leicester Square) | 1895-1915 | 22 |
Woodin, Mr. | Regent Gallery | 1854 | 655 [licensed to legalise ‘Mr. Woodin’s carpet bag and sketch book] |
Woodin, William | Exmouth Arms PH | 1858-59 | 275 |
Woodley, William Katen | Ridley Arms PH | 1888 | 658 |
Woodman, George | King’s Arms PH and Palace of Varieties (Mile End Road) | 1885 [refused licence] | 430 |
Woodman, George Edward | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1931-32 | 20 |
Woodman, Sarah Maria | Hope PH (St. Pancras) | 1875-88 | 386 |
Woodman, Veere | Hope PH (St. Pancras) | 1874-75 | 386 |
Woodward, Robert | Skinner’s Arms PH | 1859-60 | 749 |
Woodward, William | White Swan PH (Mile End) | 1859-60 | 881 |
Woolhouse, Barker | Woodman PH (Hoxton, Shoreditch) | 1869-70 | 899 [1870, licence refused following police report |
Woollard, Frank Joseph | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1920-21 | 560 |
Woollhead, James Albert | Gipsy Queen PH | 1876-78 | 310 |
Wootton, Stanley Thomas | Alexandra Th. (Stoke Newington) | 1939-46 | 20 |
Workley, Nathaniel George | Swallow Street Music Hall | 1897-1903 | 783 |
Worlock, Henry Guilliam | Green Man PH (Hackney) | 1870-72 | 345 |
Victoria PH (Dalston) | 1872-73 | 839 | |
Worsley, Ernest Bruce Digby[-] | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 1938-39 | 702 |
[a.k.a. Bruce Worsley] | The ‘Old Vic’ | 1938-41 | 545 |
Wortley, Boyfield | Sekforde Arms PH | 1855-61 | 720 |
Wortham, Frederick | Cardinal Wolsey PH | 1861-62 | 132 |
Wortham, George | Barley Mow PH | 1852-53 | 49 |
Worthan, William | Albion PH (Shadwell) | 1854-57 | 15 |
Worton, William Henry | Duke of Wellington PH (Bethnal Green) | 1881-91 | 234 [Nov. 1891, license not renewed] |
Wragg, Thomas William | Godfrey’s Music Hall [Castle Music Hall] | 1886-88 | 136 |
Wrangham, James | Hare and Hounds PH (Stoke Newington) | 1856-57 | 367 |
Anchor and Hope PH | 1860-61 | 28 | |
Wrigglesworth, George Henry | Father Red Cap PH & MH | 1884-86 | 277 |
Wright, Charles | Skinner’s Arms PH | 1858-59 | 749 |
Wright, Horatio James | (Royal) Clarence Music Hall | 1869-74 | 678 |
Wright, William Charles | Rose and Crown PH (Bromley) | 1869-71 | 665 |
Wright, William Henry | North Pole Music Hall and PH (Greenwich) | 1851-53 | 526 |
Wray, Samuel | Bird Cage PH | 1862-63 | 71 |
Wyatt, Frank and Wyatt, Violet (Melnotte) | Trafalgar Theatre [Duke of York’s Theatre] | 1894-95 | 243 |
Wyatt, George | Bagnigge Wells PH | 1861-63 | 42 |
Wyatt, George, Emmett, Arthur and | Southwark Park Music Hall and PH | 1885-86 | 753 |
Wyatt, John George | Royal Victoria Music Hall (Bethnal Green) | 1897-98 | 697 |
Wyatt, Joseph | Duke of York’s Theatre | 1939-45 | 243 |
Wyatt, Violet (Melnotte) see: Wyatt, Frank, and Melnotte, Violet (above) | |||
Wyatt, William Tompson | Britannia MH (Blackfriars Rd., Southwark) | 1876-79 | 97 |
Wyer, John | Lord High Admiral PH | 1855-60 | 467 |
Wyld, George | Olympic Pavilion [Olympic Theatre 1st building] | 1843-44 | 549 |
Wylde, Dr. Henry | St. George’s Hall / Opera House | 1867-71 | 703 |
Wylie, Julian, see: Julian Wylie Productions, Ltd (below) | |||
Wyndham, Charles | Wyndham’s Theatre | 1899-1903 | 905 |
New Theatre [Albery Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre] | 1903-19 | 514 | |
Criterion Theatre | 1909-10 | 186 | |
Wyndham, Howard James | Criterion Theatre | 1931-41 | 186 |
New Theatre [Albery Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre] | 1931-45 | 514 | |
Wyndham’s Theatre | 1932-45 | 905 | |
Wyndham, Howard James and Albery, Bronson James | Criterion Theatre | 1945-47 | 186 |
New Theatre [Albery Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre] | 1945-47 | 514 | |
Wyndham’s Theatre | 1945-47 | 905 | |
Wyndham, Mary | New Theatre [a.k.a. Moore, Mary, actress] [Albery Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre] | 1919-31 | 514 |
Criterion Theatre | 1923-31 | 186 | |
Yarnold, Emma (widow of Edwin) | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1849 | 560 |
Yarnold, Edwin | Pavilion Theatre (Stepney) | 1848-49 | 560 |
Yates, Alfred | Royal Hotel (Stepney) | 1875-86 | 685 |
White Lion PH (Hackney Wick) | 1886-88 | 877 | |
Yetton, William | Sun PH (Bethnal Green) | 1869-1902 | 772 |
Yetton, William, Jnr | Sun PH (Bethnal Green) | 1902-03 | 772 |
Yorke, Philip | Matinee Theatre [St. George’s Hall] | 1897-98 | 703 |
Tivoli Music Hall | 1903-05 | 813 | |
Aldwych Theatre | 1909 | 17 | |
Young, Alfred William | Fountain PH (Woolwich) | 1850-52 | 288 |
Young, Benjamin | Gipsy Queen PH | 1866-68 | 310 |
Young, Cornelius | Waggon and Horse PH | 1869-71 | 843 |
Prince’s Hall of Varieties | 1871-74 | 611 | |
Young, Edward John | Queen’s Theatre (Long Acre) | 1869-70 | 623 |
Young, George | Beckford’s Head PH | 1862-63 | 56 |
Young, James | Prince Alfred PH | 1867-72 | 595 |
Young, John | Gipsy Queen PH | 1868-69 | 310 |
Young, Thomas Alfred | George the Fourth PH (Regent’s Park) | 1858-60 | 308 |
Young, William | Red Lion PH (Shoreditch) | 1864-67 | 651 |
Young, William | Royal Oak PH (Stepney) | 1866-69 | 690 |