Julia Gwynne

He brought Gwynne with him in 1879 to join the chorus in D'Oyly Carte's company in Gilbert and Sullivan's hit opera H.M.S.

from 1879–80, when Jessie Bond travelled to New York City to create the role of Edith in the American production of The Pirates of Penzance.

[5] Gwynne next created the role of Leila in Iolanthe in 1882 but left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in January 1883.

[6] Gwynne then created the part of Dmitri in Herman Charles Merivale's adaptation of Sardou's Fédora at the Haymarket Theatre in May 1883.

She continued to act until about 1887, performing at the Haymarket Theatre in 1883–84, including in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy, The Rivals, as Lucy,[8] and in The Bachelors, an adaptation from the German by Robert Williams Buchanan and Hermann Vezin.

Together with George Power, Jessie Bond and Leonora Braham, she was one of four artistes of the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who attended a reunion at the Savoy Hotel in 1914.