E. J. Lonnen

He starred in such other major works as Little Christopher Columbus (1893), Baron Golosh (1895) and The Messenger Boy (1900) before dying at the age of 41.

"[5] As a teenager, Lonnen acted for Harry Wright's "booth" company of travelling players, and shortly before he was 20, he was engaged to appear with Barry Sullivan, and then with Edward Terry playing Tootles in Weak Woman and the Dougal Creature in Robbing Roy.

[5] He made a hit in a Liverpool pantomime with Frank Emery, who engaged him for his burlesque company for a provincial tour that brought him to wider attention.

[5] Lonnen made his London debut as Tancred in Falka at the Avenue Theatre in 1885[5] and subsequently starred in a series of successful musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London, including Monte Cristo Jr. as De Villefort and Ballyhooly (1886), Miss Esmeralda as Frollo (1887, in which he sang Killaloe, perhaps his most popular song),[7] Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (1887), Faust up to date as Mephistopheles (1888), Carmen up to Data as José (1890) and Cinder Ellen up too Late as Prince Belgravia (1891).

Edwin John Leslie Lonnen,[12] a pilot with the RFC, was killed in action in World War I on 16 August 1916 at the age of 27.