Henry Lytton
Sir Henry Lytton (3 January 1865 – 15 August 1936) was an English actor and singer who was the leading exponent of the comic patter-baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas in the early part of the twentieth century.
His career in these Savoy operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company spanned 50 years, and he is the only person ever knighted for achievements as a Gilbert and Sullivan performer.
Lytton began his career singing in operettas and plays, also doing odd jobs in the early 1880s.
His wife, Louie Henri, performed with him and helped him get started in theatre, also serving as his music and acting coach.
Lytton joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on tour in 1884 and, after various tours, performed with the company at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1886 and 1887.
After this, he played almost continuously with D'Oyly Carte touring companies for a decade as principal comedian, performing roles like Sir Joseph Porter in "H.M.S. Pinafore", Major-General Stanley in "The Pirates of Penzance" and Ko-Ko in "The Mikado".
He returned to the Savoy Theatre from 1897 to 1903, where he created a number of roles and played a large variety of roles with D'Oyly Carte, although not the principal comedian roles.
When the D'Oyly Carte company left the Savoy Theatre in 1903, Lytton left the company.
He then starred in a number of successful Edwardian musical comedies for the next four years, including "The Earl and the GirlThe Spring ChickenThe Little Michus" and "Billee Taylor".
He also performed in music hall.
During the D'Oyly Carte repertory seasons at the Savoy between 1906 and 1909, Lytton rejoined the company, again playing a variety of roles, but mostly not the principal comedian roles.
From 1909 to 1934, Lytton performed on tour and in London with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as its principal comedian.
Helen Carte
Helen Carte Boulter( born Susan Helen Couper Black; 12 May 1852 – 5 May 1913), also known as Helen Lenoir, was the second wife of impresario and hotelier Richard D'Oyly Carte.
She is best known for her stewardship of the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from the end of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
Born in Wigtown, Scotland, she attended the University of London from 1871 – 74 and pursued brief teaching and acting careers.
In 1875, she met Richard D'Oyly Carte and soon became his assistant and business manager.
She helped produce all of the Gilbert and Sullivan and other Savoy Operas, beginning with" The Sorcerer" in 1877 and for the rest of her life, and helped Carte with all of his business interests.
One of her principal assignments was to superintend arrangements for American productions and tours of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Her grasp of detail and her diplomatic skills surpassed even those of her husband.
She married Richard D' Oyly Carte in 1888.
During the 1890s, with her husband's health declining, Helen assumed greater and greater responsibility for the businesses, taking full control upon his death in 1901.
She remarried in 1902 but continued to own the opera company and run most of the Carte business interests until her death, when they passed to her stepson, Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
Although the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company's operations decreased after Richard's death, Helen staged successful repertory seasons in London from 1906 to 1908, establishing that the Gilbert and Sullivan operas could continue to be revived profitably.
By the time of her death in 1913, the opera company had become a repertory touring company, and W. S. Gilbert had died.
Helen hired J. M. Gordon to preserve the company's unique style.
In her will, she left the Savoy Theatre, the Savoy Hotel and the opera company to Rupert, the last of which operated continuously until 1982.
Bridget D'Oyly Carte
Dame Bridget Cicely D'Oyly Carte, DBE( 25 March 1908 – 2 May 1985), was the granddaughter of impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte and the only daughter of Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
She was head of the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1948 until 1982.
Though as a child she was not enthusiastic about Gilbert and Sullivan, after her father's death in 1948, Bridget D'Oyly Carte inherited the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and controlled the copyrights to the joint works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, as well as all of her family's business interests.
She had begun to assist her father in managing the Savoy Hotel in 1933, also undertaking child welfare work.
She hired Frederic Lloyd as general manager of the opera company in 1951 and moved to keep the Savoy operas fresh, marketing them as a bridge between popular and classical music.
After the copyrights to the Gilbert and Sullivan works expired in 1961, she transferred the opera company to a charitable trust that she headed.
Mounting losses, and the refusal of the Arts Council to provide a grant, forced the closure of the company in 1982, although the company re-formed after Carte's death and mounted several productions up to 2003.
In 1972, Carte founded the D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust to support charitable causes in the fields of the arts, medical welfare and the environment.
She was created a DBE in 1975.
With no children of her own or surviving siblings, she was the end of her family line.
Nellie Briercliffe
Nellie Briercliffe (24 April 1889 – 12 December 1966) was an English singer and actress best known for her performances in the mezzo-soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
After playing in the provinces early in her career, Briercliffe joined the D'Oyly Carte, touring for over three years in the Gilbert and Sullivan soubrette roles.
She left the company to play in London's the West End, but rejoined D'Oyly Carte for their 1919–20 London season.
After this, she played on the West End in musicals and comic plays, with a three-year hiatus from 1924 to 1927, until she finally retired in 1931.
She recorded seven of her D'Oyly Carte roles.
Hugo Rumbold
Hugo Cecil Levinge Rumbold (7 February 1884 – 19 November 1932) was an English designer of theatrical scenery and costumes.
Among those who commissioned designs from him were Sir Herbert Tree, Sir Thomas Beecham, Arthur Bourchier and Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Richard D'Oyly Carte (3 May 1844 – 3 April 1901) was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era.
He built two of London's theatres and a hotel empire, while also establishing an opera company that ran continuously for over a hundred years and a management agency representing some of the most important artists of the day.
Carte started his career working for his father, Richard Carte, in the music publishing and musical instrument manufacturing business.
As a young man he conducted and composed music, but he soon turned to promoting the entertainment careers of others through his management agency.
Carte believed that a school of wholesome, well-crafted, family-friendly, English comic opera could be as popular as the risqué French works dominating the London musical stage in the 1870s.
To that end he brought together the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and nurtured their collaboration on a series of thirteen Savoy operas.
He founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and built the state-of-the-art Savoy Theatre to host the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Eight years after opening the Savoy Theatre, Carte built the Savoy Hotel next to it, and later acquired other luxury hotels.
In 1891 he erected the Palace Theatre, London, which he intended to be the home of a new school of English grand opera, but this ambition was not realised beyond the production of a single work by Sullivan, "Ivanhoe".
Nevertheless, his partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan, and his careful management of their operas and relationship, created a series of works whose success was unprecedented in the history of musical theatre.
His opera company, later run by his widow Helen and then by his son, Rupert, and granddaughter, Bridget, promoted those works for more than a century, and they are still performed regularly today.
R. Scott Fishe
Robert Scott Fishe( 12 February
1871 – 31 August 1898) was an English operatic baritone and actor best remembered for creating roles in the 1890s with the D’ Oyly Carte Opera Company.
As a boy, Fishe was a chorister with the Chapel Royal.
After beginning his professional stage career, he was hired in 1891 by Richard D'Oyly Carte for the chorus of Arthur Sullivan's grand opera" Ivanhoe".
He soon toured in South America with other D'Oyly Carte artistes, performing in comic operas and surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Chile.
In 1892, Fishe played leading roles with the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company and in other West End companies, but from spring 1893, he performed exclusively with D'Oyly Carte.
Although he had begun to suffer from tuberculosis, he created several roles, most notably in Gilbert and Sullivan's last two operas: Mr. Goldbury in" Utopia, Limited"( 1893) and the Prince of Monte Carlo in" The Grand Duke"( 1896).
He played the title role in several revivals of" The Mikado".
In 1896, he travelled to South Africa for a D'Oyly Carte tour.
There, he fell ill again, but he was able to return to the stage briefly at the end of 1897, after which run his health deteriorated.
After several attempts to recuperate, Fishe gave up all hope of recovery, and he committed suicide at the age of 27.
Rupert D'Oyly Carte
Rupert D'Oyly Carte (3 November 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from 1913 to 1948.
Son of the impresario and hotelier Richard D'Oyly Carte, Rupert inherited the family businesses from his stepmother Helen.
After serving in the First World War, he took steps to revitalise the opera company, which had not appeared in central London since 1909, hiring new designers and conductors to present fresh productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in seasons in the West End.
The new productions generally retained the original text and music of the operas.
Carte launched international and provincial tours, as well as the London seasons, and he released the first complete recordings of the operas.
He also rebuilt the half-century-old Savoy Theatre in 1929, opening the house with a season of Gilbert and Sullivan.
As an hotelier, Carte built on his father's legacy, expanding the Savoy Hotel, refreshing the other hotels and restaurants in the Savoy group, including Claridge's and the Berkeley Hotel, and introducing cabaret and dance bands that became internationally famous.
He also increased marketing activities, including foreign marketing, of the hotels.
P. G. Wodehouse based a character in his novels, Psmith, on a Wykehamist schoolboy whom he identified as Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
At his death, Carte passed the opera company and hotels to his only surviving child, Bridget D'Oyly Carte.
The Gilbert and Sullivan operas, nurtured by Carte and his family for over a century, continue to be produced frequently today throughout the English-speaking world and beyond.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Leo Sheffield
Leo Sheffield( 15 November 1873 – 3 September 1951), born Arthur Leo Wilson, was an English singer and actor best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
He made his first stage appearances under the direction of W. S. Gilbert in 1906, remaining with the D'Oyly Carte company for three years.
After touring in musical theatre for the next five years with other managements, he rejoined D' Oyly Carte from 1915 to 1928 in the principal baritone roles, appearing in London seasons and on tour in Britain and, in one of his last seasons, Canada.
He recorded many of these roles.
After leaving D' Oyly Carte, Sheffield worked in a wide variety of theatre, including musical comedy, straight plays, pantomime, and in radio and films.
He continued to tour during the Second World War while in his seventies.

Question: What is the date of birth of Rupert D'Oyly Carte's father?
Answer: 3 May 1844