George Grossmith

George Grossmith (1847–1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. He wrote eighteen comic operas, nearly one hundred musical sketches, some six hundred songs and piano pieces, three books, and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines. He was born in Islington, London, and grew up in St. Pancras and Hampstead, London. In 1873, Grossmith married Emmeline Rosa Noyce, and together the couple had four children. Grossmith passed away at his home in Folkestone at the age of sixty-four.