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Born 1882.

Australian tenor.

Edward McKeown was a leading tenor in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in Australia with the J C Williamson organisation from 1914-17. He then toured the UK with D'Oyly Carte until 1919, during which time he contracted the dreaded 'Spanish' flu. in 1920 he toured in South Africa, again in a repertoire of G & S roles.

Roles in Scotland

Earl Tolloller: Iolanthe 1918
Colonel Fairfax under sentence of death: Yeomen of the Guard 1918
Marco Palmieri a Venetian Gondolier: Gondoliers 1918
Defendant: Trial By Jury 1918
Ralph Rackstraw Able Seaman: H M S Pinafore 1918
Hilarion Hildebrand's Son: Princess Ida 1918
Nanki-Poo the Mikado's son, disguised as a wandering Minstrel: Mikado 1918