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George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books, including the 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody, and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines. In a four-decade career as a performer, Grossmith created a series of nine characters in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas from 1877 to 1889, such as the Major-Gerneral in The Pirates of Penzance. He then became the most popular British solo performer of the 1890s. Some of his comic songs endure today. This 1881 photograph shows Grossmith as Reginald Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden