# Austin Rudd

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**Austin Rudd** (4 December 1868 – 24 March 1929) was a British [music hall](/source/Music_hall) comedian and vocalist.[1]

## Biography

Rudd was born in London and made his first professional stage appearance at the age of 22 at Deacons Music Hall in [Clerkenwell](/source/Clerkenwell), where a reviewer called him a "comedian of decidedly modern stamp".[2]

For the next forty years Rudd performed with success in all the major London music halls and in the British provinces as well as undertaking a number of tours abroad to the United States, South Africa, [Australia](/source/Australia) and [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand).[citation needed][3][4][5]

He had a large repertoire of songs, many of which he wrote and composed himself, including "Sailors Don’t Care", "Here We Suffer Grief and Pain" and "She Was In My Class".[citation needed][6][7]

Rudd continued to work right up to his death in 1929, aged 60. He was buried in his family grave at [St Lawrence Church, Morden](/source/St_Lawrence_Church,_Morden).[8][9]

## Legacy

A commemorative [blue plaque](/source/Blue_plaque) was unveiled at his former home at 254 [Edgware Road](/source/Edgware_Road), London, on September 5, 2015, by [The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America](/source/The_Music_Hall_Guild_of_Great_Britain_and_America)[8][10]

## References

1. Tony Barker (1978). ["Austin Rudd"](https://books.google.com/books?id=z404AQAAIAAJ). *Music Hall Records*. p. 113.

1. *London and Provincial Entr'acte*, 4 January 1890

1. "Amusements - Tivoli Theatre". Sydney Morning Herald.

1. "Amusements - Tivoli Theatre". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 March 1898.

1. "Amusements - Tivoli Theatre". No. 7 May 1901, 20 May 1901, 27 May 1901, 10 June 1901. Sydney Morning Herald.

1. Grief & Pain words and music by Austin Rudd in Tivoli Annual #39 by Joe Slater. ["Trove, National Library of Australia"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2418880). pp. 23–26.

1. ["Caricature of Austin Rudd by George Harold Cooke with commentary"](https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85109/caricature-cooke-george-harold/). *V and A Museum Collections*. January 1904. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

1. ["Latest News: Austin Rudd Commemorated"](http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190518152923/http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php) 18 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine, The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America. Retrieved 29 August 2018

1. ["Latest News: Grave of Austin Rudd Restored"](http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190518152923/http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php) 18 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine, the Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America, accessed 29 August 2018

1. ["Austin Rudd"](http://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/page4411.htm). Plaques of London. Retrieved 29 August 2018.

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