General Tom Thumb (birth name: Charles Sherwood Stratton), circus performer for P. T. Barnum
He also owned a specially adapted home on one of Connecticut's Thimble Islands.
•
On his return home from his second tour in 1847 (Black 47 of the Irish Famine), aboard the Cambria, he attracted the attention of the explorer John Palliser who "was not a little surprised, on entering the state-cabin, to hear the most unnatural shrill little pipe exclaiming, “Waiter! bwing me a Welsh wabbit”.
•
Stamford Museum where a suit of his clothes is displayed for comparison with those of Daniel Lambert.
•
Stratton made his first tour of America at the age of five, with routines that included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte as well as singing, dancing and comical banter with another performer who acted as a straight man.
General Electric | General | General Motors | Attorney General | General Hospital | Tom Hanks | Brigadier General | Tom Waits | Tom Jones | Tom Jones (singer) | Tom Cruise | Tom and Jerry | Governor General of Canada | Governor-General | Massachusetts General Hospital | general | United States Attorney General | general election | General Mills | Uncle Tom's Cabin | brigadier general | Brigadier general (United States) | General Dynamics | Tom Petty | Governor General | Tom Stoppard | New Jersey General Assembly | Tom Clancy | United Kingdom general election, 2010 | thumb |