Sir Oswald Stoll (20 January 1866 – 9 January 1942) was a British theatre manager and the co-founder of the Stoll Moss Group theatre empire. January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Born in Melbourne, Australia as Oswald Gray, Stoll moved to England with his mother after the death of his father. When his mother re-married, he took his step-father's last name. At a young age, he left school to help his mother run first the Parthenon music hall in Liverpool, and later a regional theatre company. Melbournes Yarra River is popular area for walking, jogging, cycling and relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the second most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ...

The company was a success, and Stoll began to buy or build city theatres. The theatre business made Stoll a wealthy man, and in 1898 he merged his business with that Edward Moss, one of his competitors. By 1905, almost every large town in Great Britain had an "Empire" or a "Coliseum" theatre, run by Stoll. Sir Horace Edward Moss (1852–25 November 1912) was a British theatre impresario and the founder of the Moss Empires theatre company (now known as the Stoll Moss Group). ...

Stoll was a philanthropist who, among other things, donated the land in 1916 for Stoll Mansions, a center for disabled soldiers and those who care for them.

Stoll died at his home in Putney. Putney is a middle-class district in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...

Stoll married twice. He married his first wife, Harriet Lewis, in 1892, and they had one daughter. Harriet died in 1902, and Stoll married Millicent Shaw the following year. Oswald and Millicent Stoll had three sons. 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Stoll was knighted by King George V in 1919. George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Writings

• The People's Credit. London : E. Nash, 1916.
• Freedom in Finance. London : T.F. Unwin, 1918.
• "Broadsheets" on National Finance. London : W.J. Roberts, 1921.
• More "broadsheets" on the National Finance. London : W.J. Roberts, 1922.
• National Productive Credit. London : George Allen & Unwin, 1933.

Theatre architecture

Stoll worked with noted theatre architect Frank Matcham on at least three theatres: Frank Matcham, a famous theatrical architect who designed Buxton Opera House in 1903. ...

• The Nottingham Palace (1898).
• The Hackney Empire (1901).
• The London Coliseum (1904).

The London Coliseum The Coliseum Theatre is one of Londons largest and best equipped theatres, opening in 1904. ...

External links

• Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation
• British Film Posters - comprehensive and free reference site regarding British film posters, British film pioneers, British studio history, and British poster artists