Sunday, August 30, 2009

From Sue Lenz


!cid_X_MA1_1251130228@aol, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Hi Buckles:

I thought you would like the enclosed photo, It's from the Scottish Pinder Circus family.

This act performed for Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle by Royal command on June 6. 1899.
In the photo are George Ord Pinder and Susie Ord Pinder.

The bull elephant "Bosco" joined the Pinder family in 1897 until 1923 when he died from eating poisoned grass.

This information is from George Pinder from UK. (I believe George is the Grandson)

Posted by Buckles at 8/30/2009 06:32:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Queen Victoria must have had a fondness for the circus, given the number of such entertainments that provided a "command performance." Has anyone ever compiled a listing of these presentations with accompanying analysis? The presentations go far beyond Barnum and Tom Thumb hobnobbing with the royal family; one of the Sangers staged an entire street parade for them. She also hosted the Bostocks several times, with an interest in animals.

The circus efforts were surely just the tip of the iceberg of a broad array of command performances, but it demonstrates that in her mind that she valued the genre and placed it on an equal footing with other human endeavors.

30 August, 2009 09:14
Cesar Ortega said...

Somebody knows if this elephant is the same one that appeared in the Romualdo Marenco´s ballet "Amor" in the Milan theater Alla Scala and after acts in the Carlos Brothers circus in Buenos Aires en 1887? Their name was also "Bosco" and it was bought in the Hagenbeck house in Hambourg.

30 August, 2009 21:22

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