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June 25, 2016
From Finchley to
Clapham and Park
Lane – the real
people found within
Joyce’s Ulysses
In her new book The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses, Dr
Vivien Igoe features biographical information for more
than 600 characters referenced in Joyce’s novel,
including many living in, or originally from, Britain.
This week we reveal the significant Ulysses
characters with connections across the Irish Sea…
Eliza Barrow – murder victim
‘Phial containing arsenic retrieved
from body of Miss Barron which sent
Seddon to the gallows’
ELIZA BARROW, whom Joyce refers to
as Miss Barron, was poisoned by arsenic
at 63 Tollington Park, London. She was
a wealthy lodger with Mr and Mrs
Frederick Seddon, who signed over a
controlling interest of all her savings to
Mr Seddon in return for free
accommodation and a small annuity for
the rest of her life. She died on
September 14, 1911, aged 48, and was
buried in a pauper’s grave in Islington
Cemetery, High Road, in East Finchley.
Rufus Isaacs - 1st marquis of
Reading, British lawyer and politician
‘At the bar, English or Irish:
exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C.,
Rufus Isaacs, K. C.’
RUFUS ISAACS, son of Joseph Isaacs,
a Jewish fruit merchant at Spitalfields,
was born on October 10, 1860 at 3
Bury Street, London. He entered the
family business aged 15 and later
worked on the stock exchange. Isaacs
was called to the Bar in 1887 and he
led for the prosecution in the Frederick
Seddon poisoning case in 1912.
The same year he entered the House
of Commons as Liberal MP for the
Reading constituency. In March 1910 he
was knighted, before being raised to
the peerage as Baron Reading Erleigh
in 1914.
Isaacs died in December 1935, aged
75, at 32 Curzon Street, London. His
ashes were interred in the Golders
Green Jewish Cemetery, north London.
Eugen Sandow - performing
strongman and author
‘Must begin again those Sandow’s
exercises’
EUGEN SANDOW, often referred to as
the ‘Father of Modern Bodybuilding’,
was born Friederich Wilhelm Müller in
Königsberg, Germany, on April 2, 1867.
He was one of the earliest athletes to
develop his musculature to
predetermined dimensions. At the age
of 19 he was performing strongman
feats in sideshows. He was hired by the
legendary Florenz Ziegfeld for his
carnival show and became a star.
Sandow wrote five books, one of
which, Physical Strength and How to
Obtain It, was included in Bloom’s
library. Sandow died on October 14,
1925 and was buried in Putney Vale
Cemetery, south-west London.
Kendall made her initial début at
Haymarket in London, where she
played Desdemona to Ira Aldridge’s
Othello. She was at the peak of her
musical career at the end of the
nineteenth and the early twentieth
centuries. She is described as having a
‘figure trim and flitsome as a
dragonfly’.
Kendall died on May 5, 1964, just
short of her 90th year, and her ashes
were scattered over Clapham
Common, close to where she lived.
Marie Kendall - English actress,
singer and comedienne
‘A charming soubrette, great Marie
Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted
skirt smiled daubily from her poster’
MARIE KENDALL was born at
Victoria Park, Hackney, in London.
Her father was a prosperous
manager on the theatrical circuit in
Lincolnshire until he lost all his
money speculating in railways.
Thomas Power (Tay Pay) O’Connor
- journalist and politician
‘Then Paddy Hooper worked Tay Pay
who took him on to the Star’
THE eldest son of Thomas O’Connor and
Teresa, Thomas Power O’Connor - better
known as Tay Pay - was born in Athlone,
Co. Westmeath, on October 5, 1848.
He was educated at Queen’s College
Galway, graduating in history and
modern languages, and began his
career in journalism at the Dublin daily,
Saunder’s Newsletter. In 1870 he
joined the London Daily Telegraph as a
subeditor and later became London
correspondent for the New York
Herald. He founded and edited several
London newspapers and weeklies
including the Star (1887), the Weekly
Sun (1891) and the literary paper, T. P.’s
Weekly (1902).
In 1880 O’Connor was elected MP for
Galway as a representative of Parnell’s
Home Rule League. In 1885 he was
returned for Galway and also won the
Scotland division of Liverpool and held
that seat until his death.
He died in London on November 18,
1929 and was buried in Kensal Green
Cemetery, London.
ACTRESS: Marie Kendall
William Humble Ward - 2nd Earl of
Dudley, Lord lieutenant of Ireland
‘William Humble, earl of Dudley, and
Lady Dudley, accompanied by
lieutenant-colonel Heseltine, drove
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LORD LIEUTENANT:
Earl of Dudley
BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE: The
Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses
out after luncheon from the
viceregal lodge’
WILLIAM HUMBLE WARD,
was born at Dudley House in
Park Lane, London. Educated
at Eton College, Dudley was 17
when his father died and he
inherited some 25,000 acres
in Worcestershire as well as
collieries and ironworks. He
entered politics as a
Conservative and was elected
to London County Council to
represent Finsbury in March
1895, and was mayor of
Dudley in 1895 and 1896. In
August 1902 he was
appointed Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland. He was extravagant,
travelled widely and
entertained lavishly. His term
in Ireland ended in December
1905 on the defeat of the
Balfour ministry and he died
aged 65 on June 29, 1932 at
17 Park Lane, London. He was
buried in the gardens of his
home at Himley Hall in
Wolverhampton.
MUSCLEMAN:
Eugene Sandow
■ Edited extracts taken
from The Real People of
Joyce’s Ulysses – A
Biographical Guide by Dr.
Vivien Igoe, published by
UCD Press, available in
bookshops, from www.
ucdpress.ie and online stores
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