e been several Bradburys since the time of Grimaldi's great
rival, Robert Bradbury, died July 21, 1831, who wore on his person nine
strong "pads," in order to go through some extraordinary feats.

The Montgomerys; the Paynes, Harry and Fred; nor should the name of "Old
Billy" Payne be omitted. "Billy" Payne it was, it will be remembered,
who, in 1833, helped, from the stage of Covent Garden, the dying Edmund
Kean.

Then there were the Marshalls, Harry and Joseph; Charles and Richard
Stilt; and a very original and amusing Clown, Richard Flexmore, died
August 20, 1860, aged 36. Tom Gray, a famous Clown of Covent Garden,
died January 28th, 1768, aged upwards of 100 years; the Paulo family of
Pantomimists; Dubois, Arthur and Charles Leclerq, Walter Hilyard, and
many, many others.

In the 'twenties and 'thirties a popular and famous Pantaloon was
"Jimmy" Barnes, died September 28th, 1838. Barnes, in the summer of
1830, was engaged to play in an English company at Paris, but they had
hardly commenced to perform when the Revolution of July broke out. Some
years afterwards Barnes published in "Bentley's Miscellany," from his
old original M.S., an amusing and illustrated account of his wanderings.

Amongst other Pantaloons there have been--Thomas Blanchard, died August
20, 1859, aged 72; William Lynch, died June 29, 1861, aged 78; R.
Norman, died September 16, 1858, aged 70; George Tanner, died February
8, 1870; and Paulo, a member of Mr. Charles Kean's Company at the
Princess's Theatre, had as Pantaloon appeared in many Pantomimes. It is
a notable fact that a good number of our Mimes were long-livers.

Long before Miss Farren, afterwards Countess of Derby (died April 21,
1829), first charmed a London audience, we hear of her in 1772 at
Wakefield in one of her first parts--if not her first--that of
Columbine. She could both sing well and dance gracefully. One of the
earliest "parts" that even the great Mrs. Siddons (that afterwards was),
when a young girl, played, was in connection with Pantomime, as Combes
remembered to have seen her "Standing by the side of her father's stage,
and knocking a pair of snuffers against a candle-stick to imitate the
sound of a wind-mill, during the representation of some Harlequinade."

In days gone by Madame Leclerq, Carlotta Leclerq, Charles Kean's
Columbine in the seasons of 1850-1-2, E. Dennett, Emma Boleno, died
October 18th, 1867, aged 35; Marie Charles, who died from an accident by
fi