Eileen Boyd
Australian singer (1890-1975)
Eileen Alberta Boyd became Mrs Gordon Lane (13 December 1890 – 14 September 1975) was an Australian singer. She began as a child performer and she toured in the UK during World War One.
Life
Boyd was born in 1890 in Sydney to Margaret (born Shalvey) and Albert Boyd. Both her parents had been born in Australia and her father ran a hotel. Her parents arranged lessons for her in singing and elocution and she was a child singer. She toured New Zealand in 1900 when she was known as "The Baby Baritone, Clog Dancer and Whistler". She continued her education with a tutor while on tour. In 1910 a concert was arranged in Sydney to mark her transition from a child performer to a singer with a fine contralto voice. In 1915 she married in Britain in May and in October she was a widow with a child and a young teenage step-daughter. Her husband, Hugh Ernest Roberts had been a master mariner.
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