Occupation Music hall singer Role Singer | Name Daisy Wood | |
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Full Name Daisy Violet Rose Wood Born 15 September 1877 ( 1877-09-15 ) Hoxton Died 19 October 1961(1961-10-19) (aged 84)
Banstead, Surrey Spouse(s) Donald Alexander Munro 1899–1911 Similar People Tamara Wall, Sophie Austin, Scott Bruton Profiles |
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Daisy Violet Rose Wood (15 September 1877 in Hoxton, London – 19 October 1961), was an English Music hall singer.
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Life and career
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The fifth of nine children, the oldest being Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870–1922), performing under the stage name Marie Lloyd. Seven of the siblings took up stage careers. In their earliest years, costumed by their mother (Matilda Mary Caroline), they performed as The Fairy Bells Minstrels, singing temperance songs in local missions and church halls. This ceased, when the eldest sister made her professional debut at the age of fifteen. The children were entranced by music hall, their father (John, an artificial florist) working in the evenings at the nearby Royal Eagle Tavern.
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Daisy, made her own first professional appearance in a play entitled My Willie at the South London Palace, on 17 March 1890. She went on to perform a solo musical act, making the most of her petite and dainty figure. She was thought to have been the prettiest of the sisters.
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On 26 April 1899 she married Donald Alexander Munro, an insurance broker and chairman of the Crown Theatre. She was only 21, her husband 26, and she retired from the theatre. They had two children, Donald (1902) and Dorothy Grace (1906). They moved to Kensington, but Donald fell ill the following year, and their fortunes were under pressure.
In her late twenties, Daisy returned to the stage, and due to the increasing fame of her sisters, at the top of the bill. In 1908 she was offered an immense sum to tour New York with her sisters (Marie, Alice and Rosie), by the William Morris Agency, and in the autumn they performed in New York, to great acclaim.
Her husband died on 24 September 1911, aged 39. His widow continued to tour throughout the British Isles and internationally, until she finally retired in 1928, but occasionally returned to the stage with her sisters Alice and Rosie during the 1930s and World War II.
Daisy Wood died on 19 October 1961, aged 84 at her home in Banstead, Surrey.
Selected Songs
Songs
Dream Baby Dream
Dreamboats & Petticoats
You Won't Catch Me Crying
Let It Be Me
It's Only Make Believe
To Know Him Is To Love Him
Teenager In Love