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Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch

Died in 1908

Alfred Dampier was born on 28 February 1843 in Horsham, in Sussex. Trained in Manchester in Henry Irving's company, he arrived in Melbourne in 1873 and founded his own company, attached to the Alexandra in Melbourne and the Royal Standard in Sydney, and toured as far as New Zealand with his wife, the pianist Katherine Russell, and their children. Garnet Walch, born on 1 October 1843 in Broadmarsh, Tasmania, a journalist, wrote pantomimes and burlesques in Melbourne. Dampier died on 23 May 1908 in Paddington, Sydney, and Walch on 3 January 1913 near Melbourne.

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