page_title: William Lingard
section_title: Immigration to America and subsequent tours
hierarchical_section_title: William Lingard / Immigration to America and subsequent tours
caption_attribution_description: English: A songsheet of a work by William Lingard, showing him dressed as a woman.
context_page_description: William Horace Lingard was a 19th century English comic singer.
context_section_description: In 1868, Lingard immigrated to America (along with his wife, Alice Dunning Lingard).  He made his comic debut in New York City that year. After this debut—held at the Theatre Comique, on 6 April 1868—Lingard became known as one of the funniest men of the time. He continued his career in New York, and later became manager of Wood's Theatre there.
  Lingard's troupe, which included Alice's sister, Harriet Sarah Dunning (who went by the stage name "Dickey Lingard") toured Australia twice, the first time commencing in 1876 and the second commencing in 1879.
  During his second Australian tour, in 1880, Lingard was successfully sued in the Supreme Court of the Australian Colony of Victoria by Gilbert and Sullivan for his unauthorised production of HMS Pinafore. This most likely prompted “The Wreck of the Pinafore” which was written by Lingard and set to music by Luscombe Searelle.
caption: William Lingard, dressed as a woman on one of his song sheets. (circa ~1870)
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