ARTHUR SKETCHLEY.
George Eosc—known to fame as Arthur Sketchley—the creator of the celebrated Mrs Brown, is at present in Dunedin, delighting the inhabitants of the southern capital, with his humorous readings, descriptive of Mrs Brown’s adventures. As Mr Sketchley will visit Timaru ou Saturday week, and introduce us (o Mrs Brown, the following particulars (contained in a contemporary), will perhaps be found interesting : Sketchley ” was eduevied for _ tie church, took his degree, was ordained, ami was for five years a curate in the Weald of Kent. “ He then became a Catholic, and being a good classical
scholar, and master of several in idem languages, ho became tutor lo the bile Duke of Norfolk’s family, and educated the present Duke. He has made money by his books and readings. Of “Mrs Drown at the Hay.” 250,000 copies have been sold. He is very Fat, very talkative, and very amusing. You must go and hear him if you want a good laugh.” Our readers may, therefore, depend upon it they have something realty good in store for them.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2167, 27 February 1880, Page 2
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176ARTHUR SKETCHLEY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2167, 27 February 1880, Page 2
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