Robert Brough (actor)

[1] His parents had ambitions for him in the world of commerce, but he soon decided on a stage career, and Edward Saker found a part for him in his show Little Em'ly, an adaptation of David Copperfield, in Glasgow in 1870.

[1] His first Sydney appearance was in July 1885 under contract to Williamson, Garner & Musgrove singing the comic part of innkeeper Taboureau (bass) in La petite Mademoiselle from an operetta by Charles Lecocq, at the Theatre Royal.

The company, with its new members Eille Norwood, Fanny Enson, Lilian Seccombe, and Percy Lyndal moved to the Criterion, Sydney for a year to recover.

Among the plays produced was Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1895,[12] a bold move according to one historian, "at the height of his notoriety",[11] though the author's trial for indecency was some months away.

Brough's companies had to be agile, continually rehearsing new shows in preparation for a drop in attendance, and when touring to have ree or four titles ready for production.

[1] The funeral service was held in the mortuary chapel adjacent Christ Church, George Street, Sydney and his remains were interred at the Waverley Cemetery, witnessed by his widow along with friends and admirers.

The fountain was announced in April 1907 and fabricated by the Coalbrookdale Iron Foundry, later unveiled by the Premier of NSW, Sir Charles Gregory Wade MLA on 18 November 1907.

And his wife was of the same ilk; after his death she supported the idea of a hospital bed in her husband's name, but refused any kind of benefit for herself — she would sooner "work to her dying day.