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rights. He was billed as J.H. Booth until 1897, when he changed his stage name to George Formby. Although rumoured to have picked his new surname after seeing it as a destination on a railway carriage, the main sources agree this story is likely to be apocryphal. The origin of the Formby name is more likely to have been a suggestion from Dennis Clarke, the manager of the
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behind the conductor sat the royal party, and it looked to some that Formby was speaking disrespectfully to them. The king understood to whom Formby was talking, however, and afterwards presented him with a tiepin. In
October Formby appeared in his second Royal Command Performance of the year, in a charity show organised by the French actress
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Palladium took court action against him for failing to fulfil a theatrical engagement as contracted, whereupon his lawyer said that Formby was dying of the lung disease and was working for the short time he had left for the benefit of his large family. Formby lost the case: his plea of ill-health was
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a week. In 1898, while performing at the Wigan Empire as part of the tour, Formby met Eliza Hoy, the daughter of the Empire's cashier. The couple married in August the following year at Wigan Registry Office, although this marriage was
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when he collapsed after a show. He returned to his home near Warrington, where he died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 8 February, at the age of 45. He was buried in a family plot in the Catholic section of
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2433:Randall, Alan; Seaton, Ray (1974).
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1843:(7). New York, NY: 4. 14 July 1916.
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1805:. London. 25 June 1916. p. 7.
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224:Formby in examples of his costumes
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1978:"Mrs George Formby's Own Story".
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296:. His popularity increased when
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2298:. London: Robson Books.
1933:"Formby Back on Stage".
887:"Famous Comedian Dead".
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2437:. London: W. H. Allen.
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349:] in the capital".
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2667:List of Formby's songs
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