Charles Sloman (1808 – 22 July 1870) was an English comic entertainer, singer and songwriter, as well as a composer of ballads and sacred music.
Born in Westminster into a Jewish family originally named Solomon, he began singing in taverns at a young age, and made one of his first professional appearances at the Rotunda in Southwark in 1825.
[2][3] The diarist Charles Rice described Sloman as "the great, the Only, extemporaneous singer... his wonderful Genius is one of the most unassuming characters that ever entered the field of Public Criticism...".
[3][5][6] According to historian Harold Scott, Sloman was "the most respectable, the most ubiquitous and in some ways the most typical of tavern concert artists.
As a performer, in spite of certain versatility, he may be regarded as negligible...[But]..it was rather as a personality with the gift of popularity that he succeeded in attaching himself to history.