Talk:Leslie Stuart

message: Find-A-Grave has a different birthdate. Lincher 03:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Lamb biography is definitive and says 1865.  -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

text: I beg your pardon.  I was entirely wrong.  Lamb discusses the issue at some length here.  He says that even Stuart's daughter was not sure.  He quotes Stuart as saying that his parents didn't think it was the census takers' business how old the children were.  He said that his christening records were destroyed in a church fire.  Lamb agrees that the 1881 census is the most reliable reference, and that the best evidence is that Stuart was born in 1863.  -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:52, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Also his age is given as 66 when he died in 1928!! Brakn (talk) 06:30, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate

message: I don't think he had a brother called Lester. Brakn (talk) 11:53, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pen Names. 

message: There is a picture of sheet music distributed in Canada in 1898 entitled "The Soldiers of the Queen"; song words and music by Leslie Stuart.  Ref: http://www.goldiproductions.com/angloboerwarmuseum/Boer93o5_sheet5_canada.html   The reigning monarch of Great Britain during the 1890's when the song was written was Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.  Why was this article changed to appear as if the work was originally entitled "Soldiers of the King". Clearly the name of the song was changed some time after the death of Queen Victoria.  There is also a suggestion the music was originally written as a march to celebrate the opening of a canal -- is there any reference for this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.170.185.230 (talk) 09:33, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Written as "The Soldiers of the Queen" in the 1890's 

message: Lamb's bio on Stuart is here on Google Books.  It is only excerpts, but it seems that more than half the book is available there.  Here is a good review of the book.  The book is pretty expensive, but most university and research libraries have a copy.   Feel free to take this article further.  Here is a good series of materials on Stuart and Peggy.  Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: More on Stuart

message: You mention a daughter and 'family problems'. But no names or dates of marriage. Valetude (talk) 22:15, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Now added. -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:09, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family? 

message: Stuart's elder brother, Stephen (1855–1924), became a music-hall performer, appearing under the stage name Lester Barrett. Gradually the music Stuart composed for local shows, and his popular ballads and music-hall songs began to supersede the composition of serious and religious music. He composed music hall songs as "T. A. Barrett" and under the pseudonyms "Leslie Thomas", "Lester Barrett" and, most notably, "Leslie Stuart".
:Some confusion between the brothers here. They couldn’t both have been called Lester Barrett. (added by Valetude, 7 July 2017)
::Please remember to sign your Talk page posts.  The source states that they each used the pseudonym (made from each of their parents' last names) at some point. Probably the music hall songs he composed under that pseudonym were for his brother's act. But Stuart predominantly came to use the pseudonym "Leslie Stuart", under which he wrote all of his famous shows. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:48, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, Ssilver for notifying me about this most unusual arrangement. For this very reason, you ought to amend the story for the enlightenment of ordinary site-visitors like myself, who were unaware of such bizarre practices. And of course, I apologise for not signing my contribution  -  a rare oversight, as my file will confirm. Valetude (talk) 21:57, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you're suggesting, but you do not seem to be offering any well-referenced encyclopedic content. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:00, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elder brother