Lauri de Frece

He was sometimes confused with a cousin Lawrence Abraham de Frece, who was born in 1881 and died later the same year.

The four sons were well educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, in the hope of keeping them out of the theatre.

In 1912, he sang the part of Brissard in an Edinburgh production of Franz Lehár's operetta The Count of Luxembourg, when he was one of the five principals, together with Daisy Burrell, Phyllis Le Grand, Eric Thorne, and Robert Michaelis, collectively described by the Musical News as "all consummate artists in their own style".

[4] In 1914, after the death of the producer H. G. Pelissier, de Frece married his young widow Fay Compton,[5] with whom he later starred in The Labour Leader (1917).

[6] In his Idols of the "Halls", Henry Chance Newton (1854–1931) recalled that "I knew many de Freces, both of the Liverpudlian, and of the London brand; for example, that wonderful old couple, Isaac and Maurice de Frece, Walter's brother Jack, a big variety agent, also that late fine comedian, poor Lauri de Frece, who was the second husband of that brilliant young actress, Fay Compton.