Social Victorians/People/Todhunter
Appearance
Also Known As
[edit | edit source]- Family name: Todhunter
- Golden Dawn motto: Aktis Heliou (A.H.) — "A ray of the sun" (Alastor)
Demographics
[edit | edit source]- Nationality: Irish
Residences
[edit | edit source]- Bedford Park, Chiswick, 1881–1916
Family
[edit | edit source]- John Todhunter (30 December 1839 – 25 October 1916)
- Dora L. Digby ()
Relations
[edit | edit source]Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies
[edit | edit source]Acquaintances
[edit | edit source]Friends
[edit | edit source]Organizations
[edit | edit source]- Trinity College (Dublin) Medical School (Bachelor of Medicine, 1867; Doctor of Medicine, 1871)
- Alexandra College, Dublin (professor of English), 1870–1874
- Irish Literary Society
- The Savile Club
Timeline
[edit | edit source]1879, John Todhunter and Dora L. Digby married.
1881, the Todhunters moved to London.
1892 February, Todhunter joined the Golden Dawn, the Isis-Urania Temple (Küntz 215).
1893 April 22, Todhunter joined the Inner Order of the Golden Dawn (Küntz 215).
1894 March–April, the season at the Avenue Theatre: Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, Shaw's Arms and the Man, and Todhunter's The Comedy of Sighs; Farr produced the plays, and Horniman funded them.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Alastor
- "John Todhunter." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Todhunter (accessed July 2020).
- Küntz