Leonce Charles BLUFF

PIONEER

Leonce Charles BLUFF

nationality
occupation

birth	.. Apr/May/June 1869, ......, Hoxton, Shoreditch, London, Middlesex
baptism
death	.. 1942, ..........
burial

marriage	married on .. July/Aug/Sept 1900, Islington, Greater London, Middlesex: Theresa Grace KELLAWAY b. <1875>, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales d. .............

PARENTS

father	Robert BLUFF b. Jan/Feb/Mar 1840, Colne, St Ives, Cambridgeshire/Huntingdonshire d. Jan/Feb/Mar 1914, ....., Islington, Greater London, London, Middlesex 1891 census: maker of electric fitting
mother	Mary Anne MUSTIEL/MUSTILL b. ....., Aldreth [Haddenham], Cambridgeshire d. ...............
marriage	married in July/Aug/Sept 1868, City of London, London:
children

LIFE

In 1891 Census: vocalist music (or musn = musician?)

Used many aliases: Robert Na(i)sh,
pioneer recording expert (what company? Grammavox?)
comic
(source: Grammavox by Frank Andrews)
made the first known commercially made UK recordings, issued by the London Phonograph Company about 1892 (Guinness, p. 32)

see also: Joe Batten's Book, pp 44-46 (1956 edition, Rockcliff, London)

NOTES

"Mr. Harry Bluff, Humorist" (in: The Talking Machine Review No 51, April 1978, pp 1302-1303, 1314)

COMPANIES & LABELS

PHOTOS

Leonce Charles Bluff

THANK YOU

Paul Cleary