COLOURFUL CAREER
London Street Musician London, May 7. The king of London’s street musicians (Arthur William Rigden) recently died. A woman friend says that when limes were good Rigden made £4OOO a year. He started life as a cathedral organist, and afterward played a genuine Stradivarius violin in London streets. He was most disappointed by a hopeless fight for a pension for wounds received at Ypres. He lately played in the streets from an invalid chair.. He was a member of the I‘uiha.m Chamber of Commerce, and once bad a transport business in London. He was a moneylender, fought in the Boxer Rising and in the Boer and the Great War. He had travelled round the world three times.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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119COLOURFUL CAREER Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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