Person Open DS/UK/4443 Bates; Percy (4 August 1869-8 April 1949); Australian tenor singer and engineer Bates Percy 4 August 1869-8 April 1949 Australian tenor singer and engineer Male (cisgender) Percy Alexander Charles Bates New South Wales, Australia (born)

Australian Music | Vocals | Tenor White No known disability No known religious affiliation Son of John Edmund Baes and Mary Catherine Hancock Spouse of Crystal Charlotte Rienits and Gertrude Mary Barnes Heterosexual Percy Bates was an Australian tenor. He was appointed principal tenor of St Mary's Cathedral Choir, and later tenor at St Mark's church, St John's Wood, London. He toured England from 1903 to 1909. At Lurline Bay, he hand-carved a channel (30ft x 5ft x 5ft) in the 1920s, to prove that you could make electricity by harnessing wave energy. Although thought of as eccentric at the time, he succeeded in producing enough electricity to light his work shed and power several radiators. Ancestry research (2023) https://www.facebook.com/groups/945483495474258/posts/3062993897056530/ (2023) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 2/15/2013 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 6/3/2025 2eb5bbec-ef5d-4e80-8dbe-79d770538699