Tom Foy

Thomas Foy (1866 – 7 August 1917) was an English music hall performer and comedian.

[1] Although some sources give his year of birth as 1879,[2][3] official records (as well as his gravestone) indicate that he was probably born in or around 1866; his age at marriage in 1893 was given as 25.

[4] Prior to his entertainment career he served as an apprenticeship as a sign painter, and set up in business in Halifax, while training as an acrobat in his spare time.

He joined a circus as a clown and scene designer, and made his first music hall performance in Manchester as a lightning cartoonist.

He developed a song and dance act, and also joined a Wild West show, before becoming a comedian with a stage Irish persona.