STREET MUSICIANS
_ «» LONDON'S "KING" DEAD A CHEQUERED CAREER, LONDON, May 7. The king of London street musicians, Arthur William Rigden, recently died. A woman friend said that when times were good Rigden made £4OOO a year. He started life as a cathedral organist and afterwards played a genuine Stradivarius violin in the London streets. He was most disappointed by his hopeless fight for a pension for wounds received at Ypres. Lately he played in the streets from an invalid chair. He was a member of the Fulham Chamber of Commerce. Once he had a transport business in London, and was a moneylender. He fought in the Boxer rising and in the Boer and Great War*. He travelled the world three times.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22257, 9 May 1934, Page 7
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121STREET MUSICIANS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22257, 9 May 1934, Page 7
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