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''''Lord' George Sanger''' (23 December 1825{{#tag:ref|Brenda Assael in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' gives Sanger's date of birth as "23 December probably in 1825".<ref name=odnb /> In his autobiography, Sanger gave the date "December 23rd, 1827".<ref name=Sanger14 />|group="nb"}} – 28 November 1911) was an English showman and [[circus]] proprietor. Born to a showman father, he grew up working in travelling [[peep show]]s. He successfully ran shows and circuses throughout much of the nineteenth century with his brother [[John Sanger|John]]. He retired in 1905 and was murdered by a disgruntled employee in 1911. |
''''Lord' George Sanger''' (23 December 1825{{#tag:ref|Brenda Assael in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' gives Sanger's date of birth as "23 December probably in 1825".<ref name=odnb /> In his autobiography, Sanger gave the date "December 23rd, 1827".<ref name=Sanger14 />|group="nb"}} – 28 November 1911) was an English showman and [[circus]] proprietor. Born to a showman father, he grew up working in travelling [[peep show]]s. He successfully ran shows and circuses throughout much of the nineteenth century with his brother [[John Sanger|John]]. He retired in 1905 and was murdered by a disgruntled employee in 1911. |
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==Later life== |
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From the 1880s, Sanger became active in defending the rights of showmen and was the president of the Van Dwellers Protection Association (which later became the [[Showmen's Guild of Great Britain]]).<ref name=odnb /> |
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George Sanger built his Amphitheatre on the corner of High Street and George Street in [[Ramsgate]], Kent, in 1883. Initially it was a circus building but was also used for opera and drama from its early days. |
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The building was converted to a theatre in 1908 by [[Frank Matcham]], a well known and prolific builder of theatres, and was renamed the Royal Palace Theatre. Films were also shown and in 1929 the theatre was equipped to facilitate talking movies. Films, variety and theatre continued until early 1961 when the last pint was pulled in Sangers Bar and the theatre was demolished along with the adjoining Sanger's Hotel. |
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In 1903, he presented a statue of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] to the town of Newbury, to stand in the same position occupied by his father's shop years before.<ref name=Sanger15 /><ref name=Post /> |
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In 1905, Sanger sold off his zoo and circus effects, auctioned by circus auctioneer [[Tom Norman]].<ref name=odnbTN /> He retired to Park Farm in [[East Finchley]], north London, and published an [[autobiography]] in 1910.<ref name=odnb /> On 28 November 1911 George Sanger was murdered with a [[hatchet]] at his home by employee Herbert Charles Cooper, for unknown reasons. Cooper then committed suicide on a railway line.<ref name=odnb /> Sanger was buried on 4 December next to his wife's grave in [[Margate]]. |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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Revision as of 14:03, 29 October 2020
George Sanger | |
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| Born | 23 December 1825 |
| Died | 28 November 1911 (aged 85) East Finchley, London |
| Other names | Lord George Sanger |
| Occupation | circus proprietor |
'Lord' George Sanger (23 December 1825[nb 1] – 28 November 1911) was an English showman and circus proprietor. Born to a showman father, he grew up working in travelling peep shows. He successfully ran shows and circuses throughout much of the nineteenth century with his brother John. He retired in 1905 and was murdered by a disgruntled employee in 1911.
Works
- Sanger, George (1926) [1910], Seventy Years a Showman, New York: E. P. Dutton, OCLC 3775375
References
- Notes
- ^ Brenda Assael in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives Sanger's date of birth as "23 December probably in 1825".[1] In his autobiography, Sanger gave the date "December 23rd, 1827".[2]
- Footnotes
- ^ Assael, Brenda (September 2004), "Sanger, George (1825?–1911)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 1, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35940, retrieved 22 June 2010
- ^ Sanger, p. 14
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- Sources
- Sanger, George (2008) [1910], Seventy Years a Showman, Read Books, ISBN 978-1-4437-3113-3
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