Musical Connections
Webster Booth, largely remembered today as the duettist partner of Anne Ziegler, joined his two older brothers in the choir of St Mary's. Was considered to be one of the finest British tenors of his generation.
Harry Freeman, the popular music hall performer, was buried in the churchyard in 1922.
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“Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;
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Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.”
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