Frank Lawton (vaudevillian)

[1] He would go on to team up at one time or another with players Joe Sparks, Billy Mitchell and others before joining in the early 1880s Charles Hale Hoyt's Hole in the Ground and Milk White Flag companies.

He later received praise for his role as Spartacus Hubbs in the 1887 Cal Wallace play Pa with the Sol Smith Russell Company.

[8] Lawton would spend the greater part of the last twenty-five years of his life touring New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain where he was well received.

Frank Lawton died there on April 16, 1914,[1][9] after a long illness and the collapse of a spectacular production planned for London's Earl's Court had left him in financial ruin.

[10] A few weeks later the London theatre district put on a benefit show to raise money for his widow, former dancer Daisy May Collier, and their four children.