THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Violet Jamison (1901)

[Born Whitechapel, London 1878]

Violet Jamison was born Lillian Annette Jacobson, and was first cousin to D'Oyly Carte soprano Hilda Jacobson. Miss Jamison was a chorister on tour with the D'Oyly Carte Repertoire Opera Company in April 1901. In early 1902 she married D'Oyly Carte tenor Leon Graham. She would be a widow shortly thereafter when Graham died in South Africa at the start of a D'Oyl Carte tour there.



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