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| | John Culme's Footlight Notes - Celebrity of the Week: Sam Cowell (1819-1864), English music hall comic vocalist - Week ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | A benefit was immediately got ready on behalf of his widow and children, who were left by his untimely death, after many financial misfortunes, in comparative destitution. |
 | | There was the Caulfield family, the father, quite an excellent warbler of the sentimental type, the mother an actress, and the son one of those adaptable youths who could play the betrayed heroine or the poor unwanted orphan with a pathos calculated to wring the withers of a West End moneylender. |
 | | Haydn Corrie, the father of Eugene Corri, afterwards so well-known in the boxing world, was a favourite singer at the Canterbury [music hall], as were, in the comic line, Tom Penniket and Sam Cowell — the latter a gentleman who sang Cockney songs in the dialect then being popularised by Charles Dickens. |
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