EDWIN BOGGETTI

1854 --- 4th August 1922

My very grateful thanks to John Culme for the wonderful biography of this composer, thank you John.

Edwin Boggetti (1854 – 4 August 1922) was one of the children of William Boggett (1834 – 19 April 1884), a stonemason, a native of Grantley,
Yorkshire, and his wife, Bridget (née Lofthouse, 1831-1889). In the 1871 Census Edwin, aged 16, described as a stonemason’s apprentice, was
living in Grantley with his parents and siblings. In 1882 Edwin, now Boggetti, was married in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  to Beatrice Burton Clewes
(11 February 1864 – 1954). A Edwin and Beatrice Boggetti, who are recorded in the Census returns for 1881, 1891 and 1902 they were living in
Wandsworth, Surrey, had five children, two boys and three girls, born between 1883 and 1901 two became actors: Victor (1890-1974) and Vera
(1902-1985). By the time of the 1911 Census they were living at 11 St. John’s Wood Terrace, London, N.W.

SONG-WRITER’S DEATH.

The pathetic Last Words of Well-Known Musical  Director.Edwin Boggetti,  for very many years the musical director of the Old Globe and Princess
Theatres, and later musical  director for Sir Frank Benson’s Shakespearean Company, has died at Hampstead. Edwin Boggetti was one of the best
-known and best-liked  figures in the  theatrical and  Bohemian world of the middle  and latter part  of the last century,  and many of  his popular
songs had an enormous vogue in their day. and in spite of a severe affection [sic] of the heart, he had recently devoted himself to giving his little
grandchildren their first lessons in music from a pianoforte tutor,  well known to the classrooms,  of which he was the author, and his last words
were “I’m afraid I shall not be able to give the children their lesson to-day. (Sunday Mirror, London, Sunday, 6 August 1922, p. 19b)

MUSICAL COMPOSER’S SUDDEN DEATH.

Mr. Walter Schroder held an  inquest at the Hampstead Coroner’s Court  concerning the death  of Edwin Boggetti, aged 61,  who resided at Mill-
lane, West Hampstead. - Mrs. Beatrice Boggetti, the widow, deposed that her husband, a musician and composer, had ceased of late practising
as a musician, but he continued musical composition of songs.   Lately he had not been very well and had complained of pains in the back.   On
Friday he still complained of pains in his back.  She left him about a quarter-past five seated in his arm-chair reading.  On her return soon after
seven o’clock she found him leaning down against the arm-chair.  He asked her for some whisky, and witness, not having any,  gave him some
gin.He appeared in a fainting condition and was unable to tell her how he came in the position she had found him. He became unconscious and
he died in a few minutes.  "In answer to the Coroner,"  witness stated that the deceased  was formerly associated  with the Globe and Princess
Theatres.  Dr. Frank Barber Wells stated that on Friday evening he was called to see the deceased,  and found he had recently expired.   He had
since made a post mortem,  and found that  death was due to the rupture of  an aneurism of the aorta.  - The Coroner recorded a verdict  “That
the deceased died from natural causes.’ (St. Pancras Guardian, Kilburn, Friday, 11 August 1922, p. 3g)

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