William Lingard

On 3 April 1860, under the name of William Thomas, at St Anne, Limehouse, London, he married Amelia Martha Flint (1836–1903).

[2][3] However, the marriage with Amelia Flint fell apart soon afterwards and Lingard bigamously married 19 year old Alice Dunning (1845–1897) at Bristol in June 1866.

On 11 August 1883, Lingard (still calling himself a "bachelor") married Alice Dunning legally at Holy Trinity, Grays Inn Road, London.

The witnesses on this occasion were Alice's sister Harriet Sarah Dunning and her husband Davison Dalziel.

Many were impersonations of well-known historical characters, such as Otto von Bismarck, Napoleon III, and Brigham Young.

[15] The song later became the basis of a stage comedy of the same title, written by Clyde Fitch, and a 1975 opera by Jack Beeson.