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Tom Major-Ball (born Abraham Thomas Ball; 18 May 1879 – 27 March 1962) was a British music hall and circus performer. He was the father of John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.
Abraham, known also as Tom Major-Ball, was born and baptised in 1879 in Bloxwich, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of Abraham Ball and Sarah Ann Marrah. The family lived in Walsall, Staffordshire, where Abraham's father worked as a bricklayer.
17 de out. de 2012 · He brings the same diligence and clear thinking to My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall, an account of one of our much-loved institutions told through the story of his father, Tom Major-Ball, who began his music hall career aged 17, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne.
Tom Major-Ball (born Abraham Thomas Ball; 18 May 1879 – 27 March 1962) was a British music hall and circus performer. He was the father of John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.
15 de dez. de 1998 · Recent biographers of Bowie maintain that, when writing his tenth single and first hit, Space oddity, in South-East London in early 1969, the budding rock star remembered an old Brixton theatre bill advertising a circus performer named Tom Major and named his song's doomed spaceman Major Tom.
Tom Major-Ball: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more.
21 de nov. de 2014 · It was famously said of John Major, the onetime Tory prime minister, that he ran away from the circus to become a banker. For dad Tom Major-Ball was a music hall performer and circus artiste during his colourful career.
