Neville Kennard

Neville Kennard (born Lord Nevil Brown; c. September 1900 – 30 December 1963 They had married on 20 February 1892 in Ripe, Sussex where Harriet was from. ), Bessie Lilian (born 1903) and Gwendoline Isabella Linda (born 1906). Lord Nevil Brown took as his stage name Neville Kennard (his middle name plus the surname of his maternal grandfather, George Kennard a form of entertainment described as long-gone and much lamented. It was at this time that he spent a number of seasons at the Windmill Theatre.

He also toured with Fred Karno's Mumming Birds,

He also presented his own summer shows, and wrote a number of successful concert party sketches including: The tale of a tail; At your service; Babies in the park; and probably the most performed *It's Up To You Sir. In the "It's Up To You Sir" sketch the audience were invited to make suggestions as to how the sketch should proceed. After the gradual demise of concert party and other forms of variety, mainly due to the rise of cinema, he remained active. In 1949 he started to write a weekly column in the theatrical newspaper The Performer all about summer shows. It was called "Pom Poms and Ruffles" and was so successful that he continued it once the winter started and called it "Bon Bons and Trifles". He spent his later years, from 1956, in Eastbourne.

He died on 30 December 1963

Personal life Kennard was married to Gladys Wells (real name Gladys B. Turner) who on a number of occasions performed with him. They had married at the latter end of 1938 in Hendon, Middlesex. Despite much of their work being in London, they lived for most of the 1930s in Sharrow. At the end of the thirties they had relocated to Kenton before finally living in Eastbourne from 1956. He died in Cuckfield, Sussex in 1963.