Maud Boyd

In 1881 aged 13 she was a boarder at Adelphi House Convent, a Catholic girls' school in Salford in Greater Manchester that was run by nuns.

[1] As a pantomime principal boy she played Prince Charming in Little Red Riding Hood at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in December 1893,[2] the title role in the panto Robin Hood,[3][4] while over Christmas 1894 she was in Babes in the Wood in Liverpool.

[5] Christmas 1895 found her in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Hull[6] From December 1897 she played Alice in Dick Whittington at the Alexandra Theatre in Stoke Newington.

[7] In Dublin in 1899 she recorded "The Golden Isle" from A Greek Slave for the Gramophone Company, but it was not released.

[8] In Manchester in February 1900 she appeared in The Forty Thieves at the Theatre Royal.