RUMFORD (Robert Kennerley, 1870- 1957, Baritone, Husband of Dame Clara Butt)

Fine Signature on card, 3½” x 2½”, no place, date pencilled in another hand, 29th June

Clara Butt married Rumford in 1900. In later life she was dogged by tragedies. Her elder son died of meningitis while still at school, and the younger one committed suicide. During the 1920s, she became seriously ill with cancer of the spine. She made many of her later records seated in a wheelchair.

Item Date:  1928

Stock No:  42048      £25

             Add to Wish List     Order/Enquire