William Elton
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William Elton (fl 1870s-1880s) was an actor and musician
In 1875 he was a member of a company recruited in England by Frank Weston on behalf of Disney Roebuck,
As a bandleader he formed an “Ashantee Dance and Chorus” from “a band of coloured boys picked from the street” (also referred to as “street Arabs”) and participated in a performance entitled Brown and the Brahmins at the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town in 1875. This under the auspices of Disney Roebuck. (Fletcher, 1994)
