Hilda Moody

Hilda Moody (16 June 1876–21 September 1961)[1] was an English singer and actress who, after a brief career in a D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring company in 1896, appeared as the leading lady in Edwardian musical comedy at Daly's Theatre and the Apollo Theatre in London until 1903.

[3] On 23 December 1886, with other members of her family, she took part in an entertainment at the United Methodist Free Church school room at Stithians, to a large audience.

On that occasion she sang 'Darby and Joan' and a duet, 'The broom-girls', with her sister Mabel, which "evoked an unmistakable encore".

[7] In October 1896 Moody toured with the same company as the lead soprano, Princess Zara, in Utopia, Limited.

[12] Her husband having died in January 1929, later that year she married a mechanical engineer, Charles Harry Leather George (1886–1951), at Guildford Register Office.