Rickards, Harry
Theatre owner and comedian who built a theatre circuit in Australia and brought many legendary variety artists to Australia.
Names
Alternate
Mayor of Poverty Point
Birth name
Leete, Benjamin Harry
Milestones
Born
Stratford, London, England
4 Dec 1843
Arrived Sydney
1892
Died
Croydon, England
13 Oct 1911
Rickards, Harry
by Ailsa McPherson, 2010
A printer's son from London, Harry Rickards became Sydney's best known vaudeville entrepreneur, and founder of the the Tivoli circuit.
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