Richard Barker Cobb Temple Sr (1846 - 1912)

Born 2 Mar 1846 in London, England

Died 19 Oct 1912 at age 66 in London, England

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English opera singer, actor, and stage director

Biography

Richard Temple Sr is Notable.

Richard Barker Cobb (who was later known as Richard Temple) was born in 1846 in London. He was the son of Richard Cobb and Eliza (Barker) Cobb Name: Mother's Maiden Surname: COBB, RICHARD BARKER BARKER GRO Reference: 1846 M Quarter in SAINT PANCRAS Volume 01 Page 377 ^[1]

In 1851 he was 5 living with his parents Richard a stock broker and Eliza and his younger siblings William 3 and Maria 1 in Camberwell ^[2]

In 1871 he gave his profession as singer, living with his widowed mother Eliza and siblings Noel, 19 , a clerk, Eliza 17, and Charles 15 also a clerk , in Camberwell, St Giles, London, Surrey, England ^[3]

He had initially sung and acted in amateur productions both in London and the provinces but as his career developed he left his employment in a bank and turned professional.

He married Elizabeth Ellen Emmett in Liverpool in Q3 1872 ^[4] She was a singer he had worked with on a number of occasions.

He worked for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in a number of roles and productions prior to playing part of the Pirate King in the first London production of The Pirates of Penzance (April 1880-April 1881)

In 1881 he gave his profession as opera singer. He was a bass-baritone He was 35 living with his wife Maria, son William 8, his mother Eliza 62, his sister Maria 31, brother Edward 25 in Camberwell. ^[5]

His career further developed and he had roles in Iolanthe (Savoy, November 1882-January 1884) in which he created the role of the Strephon. He then appeared there in Princess Ida (January-October 1884) in which he was the original Arac, and a revival of The Sorcerer (October 1884-March 1885), in which he revisited Sir Marmaduke. He next created the Mikado of Japan in The Mikado (March 1885-January 1887) and Sir Roderick Murgatroyd in Ruddigore (January-November 1887). When Ruddigore closed, Carte produced revivals of H.M.S. Pinafore (November 1887-March 1888), The Pirates of Penzance (March-June 1888), and The Mikado (June-September 1888) with Temple repeating his original roles in all three. Temple next created the part of Sergeant Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard (Savoy, October 1888-November 1889).

In 1890 he performed in The Gondoliers in New York and on returning to Britain he became a director directing Gounod's The Mock Doctor and Grossmith's Cups and Saucers at the Globe Theatre in December 1890.

He performed in a number of productions with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company during the 1890s but as he became older he devoted himself primarily to recitals and to teaching. He also did some recording in 1902-03 for the Gramophone & Telephone Company. His renditions of "A More Humane Mikado" and "O Better Far to Live and Die" appear on the Pearl CD "The Art of the Savoyard" (GEMM CD 9991).^{[6] [7]}

He died in 1912. His Death was registered in Strand ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGTQ-25B : 12 September 2019), Richard Cobb, Camberwell, Surrey, England; citing Camberwell, Surrey, England, p. 40, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
3. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRFB-RCM : 29 September 2019), Richard B Cobb in entry for Elisa Cobb, 1871.
4. ↑ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=bF9jKNnSIz%2FMCkQOIb%2FCoQ&scan=1
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q277-79SW : 11 December 2017), Richard B Cobb, Camberwell, London,Surrey, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 36, Piece/Folio 695/129, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,376.
6. ↑ https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/T/TempleRichard.htm
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Temple_(bass-baritone)
8. ↑ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=ReahVG08Irz6Jq%2F7e%2FzrmQ&scan=1

See Also:

• Wikipedia:Richard_Temple_(bass-baritone)

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sir William Arbuthnot for creating Temple-617 on 20 Oct 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Sir William and others.