pre-deceasing

Updated: May 19, 2025

Byrne, who was also a dancer, pre-deceasing her husband by a few months in her seventy-fourth year. Joseph Grimaldi, son of "Old Joe," made, at twelve years of age, his first appearance at Sadler's Wells in 1814, playing Man Friday to his father's Robinson Crusoe.

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime