| Biography | (William Thomas) Whitney Mockridge, tenor, b Port Stanley, Canada West (Ont), 1861, d Capetown 1956. He studied with F.H. Torrington and made his debut with the Toronto Philharmonic Society in 1879. He was soloist with various US organizations and a member of the Carl Rosa Opera Company 1882-4 and the American Opera Company in 1886. He settled in England in 1893, but returned occasionally to the USA to teach. |