page_title: May Leslie Stuart
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: May Leslie Stuart / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: May Leslie Stuart, from a 1906 publication. A young white woman with long dark hair, wearing loose voluminous robes; she has a wreath of leaves and fruit in her hair.
context_page_description: May Leslie Stuart was an English actress and singer in operetta and Edwardian musical comedy from 1909 to 1915. She also sang on the vaudeville circuit, performing with her father, British composer Leslie Stuart.
context_section_description: Stuart was born in London, the daughter of composer Leslie Stuart (born Thomas Augustine Barrett) and his wife, Katherine Mary Fox. Her younger sister Constance ("Lola") married an American banker and, while living in Maine, taught a young George H. W. Bush to play tennis. Her father's song "Sweetheart May" was written about Stuart when she was a girl.
caption: Stuart, photographed by Lallie Charles, from a 1906 publication
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