Scrapbooks of Sydney Harold Hunt (aka Harold Sydney) actor and producer

Scrapbooks containing newspaper Chippings, playbills, programmes, photographs and correspondence collected by Sydney Harold Hunt (aka Harold Sydney), actor and producer.

• <persname>Hunt, Sidney Harold, d 1974, of Gloucester, actor and producer of Gloucester</persname>
• <persname>Sydney, Harold, d 1974, of Gloucester, actor and producer</persname>

Professor John Dixon Hunt

Sydney Harold Hunt ('Harold Sydney'), actor and producer, died 1974

Sydney Harold Hunt, Professor Hunt's father, took the stage name of 'Harold Sydney'. He was born in Bristol but came to Gloucester as a young man, and was a chorister, eventually head chorister, at the Cathedral. During the First World War he served in the Royal Navy, notably on HMS Tiger. Professor Hunt was his only child by his second marriage, in 1934, to Marjorie Dixon, daughter of the first headmaster of Lydney Grammar School. In 1948 the Hunts moved to Bristol and in 1956 retired to Hastings, and subsequently to Bexhill-on-Sea.

Sydney Hunt formed the Harold Sydney Company of amateurs in Gloucester in 1908. They gave c135 shows before the Company was disbanded in 1928. It is referred to on p. 190 of T. Hannam-Clark's Drama in Gloucestershire. He then became associated with the Churchdown Amateur Dramatic Society, from 1926 to 1936, The Mynd Players, from 1931 to 1948, and the Cotswold Players, from 1931 to 1941, as actor and producer.