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Groves family, the Glossary

The Groves family is a British theatre family which traces its roots to the Regency era.^[1]

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Acting families
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Alcoholism

Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Byron Pedley

Byron Pedley (1844-1910) was an English stage comedian of the Victorian era.

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Charles Groves (actor)

Charles Groves (6 December 1843 − 8 July 1909) was an Irish-born, British stage actor of the Victorian era, associated with his work in comedy in London's West End and on Broadway.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a professional British light opera company that, from the 1870s until 1982, staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

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Domestic worker

A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Fred Groves (actor)

Fred Groves (8 August 1880 – 4 June 1955) was a British actor of the celebrated Groves acting family.

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Fred Karno

Frederick John Westcott (26 March 1865 – 17 September 1941), best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was an English theatre impresario of the British music hall.

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Garrick Theatre

The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick.

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George Roper

George Francis Roper (born Furnival; 15 May 1934 – 1 July 2003) was an English comedian, best known for his appearances in the long-running UK television series The Comedians.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

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Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary.

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John Hare (actor)

Sir John Hare (16 May 1844 – 28 December 1921), born John Joseph Fairs, was an English actor and theatre manager of the later 19th– and early 20th centuries.

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Lambeth

Lambeth is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.

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List of show business families

This is a list of contemporary (20th- or 21st-century) show business families.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Matt Roper

Matt Roper is a British comedian, writer and musician.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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Nineteenth-century theatre

Nineteenth-century theatre describes a wide range of movements in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Regency era

The Regency era of British history is commonly described as the years between and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington.

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Salford

Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (translation, originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.

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The Tramp

The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.

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Tom Thumb (play)

Tom Thumb is a play written by Henry Fielding as an addition to The Author's Farce.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Victorian burlesque

Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid-19th century.

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Walter Groves

Walter Groves (1856–1906) was a British actor, comedian, music hall artist, and writer of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras.

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Warrington

Warrington is an industrial town in the borough of the same name in Cheshire, England.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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Workhouse

In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (lit. "poor-house") was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groves_family

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Acting families

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British theatre people

English stage actors

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