Robert Brough
Robert Brough (1857-1906) was an actor and manager
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Biography
Born Lionel Barnabas Brough in England, he was the son of Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1860) journalist, poet and librettist, and Elizabeth Brough (nḗe Romer). The actress Fanny Brough was his sister.
Having decided on a stage career, he made his first appearance in Little Em'ly, an adaptation of David Copperfield, in Glasgow in 1870, later began working with the D'Oyley Carte No. 2 Company, where he met and married Florence Trevelyan.
The couple then moved to Australia under contract to J. C. Williamson, making their first appearance in Melbourne in the Australian première of Iolanthe.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brough_(actor)
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 69, 144-5, 191, 233, 271, 365, 419
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