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See also:BLONDIN (1824-1897) , See also:French tight-rope See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
walker and See also:acrobat, was See also:born at St Omer, See also:France, on the 28th of See also:February 1824. His real name was See also:Jean See also:Francois Gravelet. When five years old he was sent to the Ecole de Gymnase at See also:Lyons and, after six months' training as an acrobat, made his first public See also:appearance as " The Little Wonder." His See also:superior skill and See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace as well as the originality of the settings of his acts, made him a popular favourite. He especially owed his celebrity and See also:fortune to his See also:idea of See also:crossing See also:Niagara Falls on a tight-rope, 11oo ft. See also:long, 16o ft. above the See also:water. This he accomplished, first in 1859, a number of times, always with different theatric See also:variations: blindfold, in a See also:sack, trundling a wheelbarrow, on See also:stilts, carrying a See also:man on his back, sitting down midway while he made and See also:ate an See also:omelette. In 1861 Blondin first appeared in See also:London, at the Crystal See also:Palace, turning somersaults on stilts on a rope stretched across the central See also:transept, 170 ft. from the ground. In 1862 he again gave a See also:series of performances at the Crystal Palace, and elsewhere in See also:England, and on the See also:continent. After a See also:period of retirement he reappeared in 1880, his final performance being given at See also:Belfast in 1896. He died at See also:Ealing, London, on the 19th of February 1897.
End of Article: BLONDIN (1824-1897)
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