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Gareth Malone was born on 9 November 1975 in London and is 49 years old. He is best known for presenting the reality TV programme The Choir<\/em>.<\/p> At the start of his episode of Who Do You Think You Are?<\/a><\/em>, Gareth is keen to find out about two forebears who, family stories suggest, also worked in showbiz: actor Edmund Payne and impresario Daniel Lowrey.<\/p> Gareth begins by researching the life of his great great grandfather, Edmund Payne. There\u2019s plenty of archive material on Edmund\u2019s career available. That\u2019s because, as Gareth discovers amidst the splendour of Her Majesty\u2019s Theatre, Edmund was a successful comic actor, well known enough to have performed for George V at a Coronation Gala Performance in June 1911.<\/p> Noted for his comic lisp, Edmund was, according to one account, \u201ca real funnyman who was never vulgar\u201d. Gareth is delighted with what he\u2019s discovered. \u201cHe was somebody who could make people laugh and what\u2019s better than that?\u201d he says.<\/p> There\u2019s more: in Stoke Newington, Gareth meets a cousin, Leslie, one of Edmund\u2019s descendants, who\u2019s able to give Gareth a DVD of their forebear performing. Gareth shows this to his family, including his grandfather, who never met Edmund and says, \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to see this for 94 years.\u201d Gareth concludes his research at the British Library, where he listens to a recording of Edmund performing a comic song.<\/p> Gareth next turns his attention to his 4x great grandfather, Daniel Lowrey. Family legend suggests Daniel was from Dublin<\/a>, but the first trace of him is in Leeds, where census records<\/a> reveal Daniel was the son of a weaver and shows him working as a dyer. This doesn\u2019t sound too much like a showbiz figure. The 1851 census reveals that Daniel moved across the Pennines to Liverpool. How was he making a living? Initially, Gareth can\u2019t read the document, but then he realises Daniel\u2019s profession is listed as \u201csings at concerts\u201d.<\/p> Meeting theatre historian Dr Caroline Radcliffe at a Liverpool pub, Gareth learns more about Daniel\u2019s life in the city. According to an 1857 trade directory, Daniel became a publican. A copy of theatrical newspaper The Era<\/em>, from 1859, reveals more about Daniel, in a listing that describes him as: \u201cThe greatest Irish singer of the present day, bar none.\u201d<\/p> Daniel, it turns out, converted his pub to be the Malakoff Music Hall, and a photograph of Daniel shows a man who \u201clooks like he can handle himself\u201d. Which might have been necessary because the venue was close to the docks, where things could get rough. Daniel was also a confident self-publicist, who placed a statue of himself on the fa\u00e7ade of his music hall, and in 1870 stood for election as an independent in a safe Conservative council ward.<\/p> In 1871, perhaps because his bid for office was treated as a bit of a joke by the local media, Daniel moved to Dublin. Or perhaps Daniel moved because he spotted an opportunity. Daniel became the proprietor of the Erin Music Hall, a far bigger and grander establishment than his Liverpool operation. It was successful, and today it\u2019s called the Olympia.<\/p> Gareth sees a picture of Daniel, genuinely a self-made man, at the venue. \u201cHow wonderful it is to be related to somebody like that,\u201d he concludes.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By Published: Thursday, 07 November 2024 at 13:13 PM Gareth Malone was born on 9 November 1975 in London and is 49 years old. He is best known for presenting the reality TV programme The Choir. 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