American-born British novelist, poet and dramatist
Sturgis, in about 1880
Julian Russell Sturgis (21 October 1848 – 13 April 1904) was a British-American novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist.
Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Sturgis distinguished himself in Eton's sporting activities and rowed for Balliol for three years. He then played association football as an amateur, from 1872 to 1876, and was the first foreigner to play in, and the first to win, an FA Cup Final.
Sturgis qualified as a barrister, but he embarked on a writing career in 1874, producing novels, poetry, plays and libretti. He wrote the words for four operas, with music by Arthur Goring Thomas, Arthur Sullivan, Alexander Mackenzie and Charles Villiers Stanford, respectively. He is, perhaps, best remembered as the librettist for Sullivan's 1891 opera Ivanhoe.
Russell Sturgis, and his older half-brother was John Hubbard Sturgis. When Julian was seven months old, the family moved to England, where Russell Sturgis joined...
Fellowes, Julian (5 February 2013). Downton Abbey Script Book Season 1. Harper Collins. p. Content. ISBN 978-0-06-223832-0. Fellowes, Julian; Sturgis, Matthew...
two or more pairs of brothers played. The Etonian team also included JulianSturgis, who had been born in the United States and was the first player to...
name. In the 1891 romantic opera Ivanhoe by Sir Arthur Sullivan and JulianSturgis, Friar Tuck was played by Avon Saxon. In the film Robin Hood (1922)...
same year. Ivanhoe was the grand opera by Arthur Sullivan and JulianSturgis (Sturgis was recommended by Sullivan's oft-time partner W.S. Gilbert). It...
second American player to collect a winner's medal in the FA Cup, after JulianSturgis of Wanderers in the 1873 final. Howard was also named in the PFA Team...
trade. Among his siblings were the authors JulianSturgis and Howard Sturgis and Mary Greene Hubbard Sturgis (wife of Bertram Falle, 1st Baron Portsea)...
died 1937 (ashes scattered on Cowling Moor near Ickornshaw, Yorkshire) JulianSturgis, died 1904 poet, lyricist and librettist (ashes buried at Compton Cemetery...
Volunteer Infantry, and Lucy Lyman Paine Sturgis (1833–1907). Among his siblings were Russell Sturgis Codman; John Sturgis Codman; Anne McMasters Codman, who...
Russell Sturgis and uncles included architect John Hubbard Sturgis, politician Henry Parkman Sturgis, author JulianSturgis, and novelist Howard Sturgis. He...
once again to opera, with Much Ado About Nothing, to a libretto by JulianSturgis that was exceptionally faithful to Shakespeare's original. The Manchester...
Nevertheless, Sullivan soon commissioned a grand opera libretto from JulianSturgis (who was recommended by Gilbert), and suggested to Gilbert that he revive...
became the first non-Englishman to win the FA Cup. In 1873, American JulianSturgis was the first man from outside the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...
Professor of Music, University of Oxford, 1899–1908, and composer JulianSturgis (1848–1904), librettist who played football as an amateur for the Wanderers...
Friar Tuck in the romantic opera Ivanhoe (1891) by Arthur Sullivan and JulianSturgis and Francal in Mirette by André Messager at the Savoy Theatre in 1894...
Warren Sturgis McCulloch (November 16, 1898 – September 24, 1969) was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician, known for his work on the foundation...
FW Alexander Bonsor FW Capt. William Kenyon-Slaney FW Charles Thompson FW JulianSturgis FW Hon. Arthur Kinnaird (Captain) FW Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart...
to Sullivan's grand opera, Ivanhoe (1891), it was he who recommended JulianSturgis, who wrote the libretto for Sullivan. Many of the characters in the...
politician, member of the New York State Senate, died of heart disease. JulianSturgis, 55, American-born British author Vasily Vereshchagin, 61, Russian war...
Tennyson) in 1907; Rikoltado de la pecoj (from Harvesting the Pieces by JulianSturgis) in 1915; Ŝakludo (from A game of chess by Giuseppe Giacosa, 1915) and...
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