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George Robey was an English comedian. He worked as a clerk and took up amateur comedy to distract himself from the boredom of office life. He began his professional stage work in London in 1891.

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Harding, James. ‘Robey, Sir George (1869-1954)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011). Accessed online 30 August 2014, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35788.