Winifred Barnes

[2][3] She made her stage début in Edwardian musical comedy with a minor role in Our Miss Gibbs at the Gaiety Theatre in London in 1909.

[6] She was Aloney opposite Charles Hawtrey in Anthony in Wonderland by Monckton Hoffe at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1917.

[10] Her last role was Hélene in the operetta The Three Graces, with music by Franz Lehár, at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square in early 1924.

[11] Barnes retired from the stage after her marriage to Roy Faulkner, a barrister and tobacco merchant, at Brompton Oratory, Kensington, London, on 24 July 1924,[3][12] and the couple lived in Weircombe Cottage at Holywell, Eastbourne, where she took up poultry farming.

[14] She is buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake; the inscription reads "A lovely singer of great charm who gave joy to many.