to Captain in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, performing garrison duty at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, (now Gqeberha, South Africa).
Frank Emery was brought into the company as comedian and General Manager, and introduced a degree of professionalism into the organization.
[6] In 1875 the company, which now included Fanny Enson, E. Palmer, John Brougham, Bessie Cranston and Seymour Dallas, made two tours to South Africa, the first to Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown and King William's Town, the other to the Kimberley.
[1] Major productions included Caste (1874) The Octoroon (1876), Hamlet (1876), Pygmalion and Galatea (1876), Othello (1877), and Our Boys (1877) He died at Sea Point, Cape Town on 22 March 1885 a few hours after appearing on stage as "Macari" in Called Back, and was buried at Wynberg, Cape Town.
Anne was the elder daughter of Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran (25 October 1797 – 16 August 1870), first Police Commissioner of South Australia, by his first wife.