George Grossmith

George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor and singer whose performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer he created eighteen comic operas, nearly one hundred musical sketches and some six hundred songs and piano pieces, as well as three books. With his brother Weedon he wrote the comic classic The Diary of a Nobody. He created nine characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore, the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance and Ko-Ko in The Mikado, and he also wrote for newspapers and magazines.