The November update adds twenty-three new articles, containing twenty-six biographies, accompanied by five portrait likenesses. The particular focus of this release – curated by Dr Andrew Lamb and Christopher Webber – is on opera singers and recitalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
From November 2019, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) offers biographies of 63,449 men and women who have shaped the British past, contained in 61,172 articles. 11,720 biographies include a portrait image of the subject – researched in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Read the full editorial introduction to this month’s update.
New and updated subjects - November 2019
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Allen, Henry Robinson (c. 1809–1876), singer, teacher, and composer
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Austin, Frederick William (Frederic) (1872–1952), singer, composer, and impresario
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Austral, Florence (1892–1968), singer
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Booth, (Leslie) Webster (1902–1984), singer
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Brannigan, Owen (1908–1973), singer
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Coates, Edith Mary (1905–1983), singer and actress
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Coates, John (1865–1941), singer
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Collier, Marie Elizabeth (1927–1971), singer
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Craig, Charles James (1919–1997), singer
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Green, Martyn [real name William Martin Green] (1899–1975), actor and singer
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Langdon, Michael [real name Frank Birtles] (1920–1991), singer
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Leigh, Adele [real name Adele Patricia Freedman; married names Morgan, Pease, and Enderl] (1928–2004), singer
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Lely, Durward [real name James Lyall] (1852–1944), singer and actor
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Licette, Miriam (1885–1969), singer
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Lloyd, (Henry Arthur) Powell (1900–1987), singer, director, and designer
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Lunn, Louise Kirkby (1872–1930), singer
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Poole, Elizabeth [married name Bacon] (1820–1906), singer and actress
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Pounds, Charles Curtice (Courtice) (1861–1927), singer and actor
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Pounds, Louisa Emma Amelia (Louie) (1872–1970), singer
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Robinson, (Peter) Forbes (1926–1987), singer
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Shuard, Amy (1924–1975), singer
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Sinclair, Monica [real name Gwladys Amy Monica Mary Barrows; married name Tunstall] (1925–2002), singer
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Wallace, Ian Bryce (1919–2009), singer, actor, and broadcaster
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Ward, David (1922–1983), singer
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Widdop, Walter (1892–1949), singer
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Ziegler, Anne [real name Irene Frances Eastwood] (1910–2003), singer
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