Grossmith

George and Weedon Grossmith's late-Victorian satire really is a timeless comic gem, detailing Charles's small acts of rebellion, social gaffes and attempts to make himself appear more important than he is.

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Incidentallly, George Grossmith was knocking this out for Punch while starring as the tragic jester Jack Point in the opening season of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeomen of the Guard", having just finished a very successful run as the original Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner in "The Mikado".

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He was (as Gilbert and Grossmith recognised when they caricatured him in "The Pirates of Penzance") a man of many talents; a trained draughtsman and surveyor, he sketched and painted well, and wrote several books, including most notably The Soldier's Pocket Book, a life of Marlborough, a novel, and his reminiscences of the China campaign.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

He was (as Gilbert and Grossmith recognised when they caricatured him in "The Pirates of Penzance") a man of many talents; a trained draughtsman and surveyor, he sketched and painted well, and wrote several books, including most notably The Soldier's Pocket Book, a life of Marlborough, a novel, and his reminiscences of the China campaign.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

He was (as Gilbert and Grossmith recognised when they caricatured him in "The Pirates of Penzance") a man of many talents; a trained draughtsman and surveyor, he sketched and painted well, and wrote several books, including most notably The Soldier's Pocket Book, a life of Marlborough, a novel, and his reminiscences of the China campaign.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Grossmith, that it was curious to notice how many actors were also good painters.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Brookfield said a very witty thing to George Grossmith, the father of the present very successful, actor.

Humour 1928

He indicated the angle of the room farthest from the door, whither Grossmith retired, his second part - ing from him with a grasp of the hand which had nothing of cordiality in it.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

The man with the candle now nodded, and the fourth man -- he who had urged Grossmith to leave the wagon -- produced from the pocket of his overcoat two long, murderous-looking bowie - knives, which he drew now from their leather scabbards.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

Grossmith I guess to be an accommodated form of the Ger.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909