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Cotsford Dick
Cotsford Dick crossdressing in an 1866 performance of the Oxford University Dramatic Society
BornSeptember 1, 1846 Edit this on Wikidata
DiedAugust 11, 1911 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 64)


Cotsford Dick (September 1, 1846 – August 11, 1911)[1] was a Victorian era of songs and operettas.

Charles George Cotsford Dick was born on September 1, 1846, the son of Charles George Dick, a barrister of the Middle Temple. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1869.[1] While at Oxford he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. [2]

Dick wrote a number of operettas: Our Doll's House (1875), performed at St. George's Hall, Our New Doll's House (1876), Back from India (1879), Doctor D (1885), and The Baroness (1892), the latter two performed at the Royalty Theatre.[1][3] He also published dozens of songs.[4]


; several musical pieces for the German Reed Company ; a translation into English verse of CoppeVs Le Passant, played by Mrs. (now Lady) Tree at the Haymarket Theatre ; a monologue, Mrs. Rawdon's Rehearsal played by Miss Lottie Venne at the Court Theatre ; a volume of verse, entitled The Model, 1886 ; a volume of Vers de Socie'te', entitled The Ways of the World, 1896 ; Society Snapshots (Dialogues), 1901 ; a vast number of songs and pianoforte pieces ; contributed light verse and dialogues to several papers, more especially, and continually, to The World.


A Children's Opera, A Fairy Wedding, in six parts, for pf The Waif (play, adapted from the Fiench, Haymarket Theatre, May, 1892). Songs. Dolly Varden , Olivia ; Golden wedding song , Three songs, etc. Pf. pieces: Fireside fancies, six pieces; Toccata; December and ]^[ay ; Belinda Gavotte ; Deux Melodies ; etc. Author of a volume of verse . The Way of the World (London, Bedway, 1896) https://archive.org/details/britishmusicalbi005704mbp/page/n138

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Career

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Awards and honors

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Cotsford Dick won the .

Cotsford Dick was nominated for the .

Death and legacy

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Cotsford Dick died on 11 August 1911 in .

References

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  1. ^ a b c Who was who : a companion to Who's who, containing the biographies of those who died during the period . Robarts - University of Toronto. London : A. & C. Black. 1920. p. 196.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Mackinnon, Alan Murray; Adderley, J. G. (1910). The Oxford amateurs, a short history of theatricals at the University. London: Chapman and Hall, ltd.
  3. ^ Parsons, Charles H. (1986). Opera composers and their works. Internet Archive. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-88946-401-8.
  4. ^ British Library Verfasser (1983). The catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980 16. Daw - Dick. Internet Archive. London München New York Paris Saur. ISBN 978-0-86291-300-7. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ Bristow, Joseph (2018). "Homosexual Blackmail in the 1890s: The Fitzroy Street Raid, the Oscar Wilde Trials, and the Case of Cotsford Dick". Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 22 (1): 1–25.
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