G. H. Elliott

There he played juvenile parts on stage including the title role in Little Lord Fauntleroy.

He was a member of the Primrose and West Minstrels[2] at the age of nine where he first blacked up, in a style considered at the time to be a "thoroughly respectable form of music hall and seaside entertainment".

He toured as a top of the bill variety performer through the 1930s, and also occasionally broadcast on BBC radio.

[3] He appeared in one film only, Music Hall (1934); a blackface singer who performed "Lily of Laguna" in Those Were the Days (1934) was purported to be Elliott but was not him.

[citation needed] He was married twice, first in 1913 to Emily Hayes, who died in 1940 after years of alcoholism;[3] and then in 1943 to Florence May Street, known as June.

He died in 1962, shortly after his 80th birthday, and was buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean.