The British Musical Biography

[E] Cowell, Samuel Haughton, comedian,
and comic singer, born at London, April 6,
1820. Son of Joseph Leathley Cowell (1792-
1863), the actor, by whom he was taken to
the United States in 1822. He resided for a
number of years in the States, and appeared
there as an actor ; afterwards he appeared in
Edinburgh, where he acted under his uncle,
W. H. Murray, and where he was married, in
1842, to Emilie Marguerite Ebsworth. He
appeared in London as an actor and singer,
and subsequently sang chiefly as a comic
vocalist in various parts of Britain, laying tlie
foundation, to a considerable extent, of the
modern m.usic-hall profession. He died at
Blandford, Dorset, March 11, 1864. His songs
were published in many different collections,
such as " Sam Cowell's new universal illus-
trated pocket songster," London [1856] ,4 vols.,
and among his most successful songs may be
named "Lord Lovel," " Alonzo the Brave,"
"Billy Barlow," "Rat-Catcher's daughter,"
" Corn cobs," etc.

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