Thomas Q. Seabrooke

Thomas Q. Seabrooke was born on October 20, 1860, in Mount Vernon, New York.^[1] His birth name was Thomas Quigley.^[2] He was educated in the Mount Vernon City School District until the age of eleven when he was apprenticed to the East Chester National Bank.^[3] Shortly before his twentieth birthday, he made his professional stage debut as Bertie Cecil in Cigarette;^[4] a stage adaptation of the novel Under Two Flags by playwright Henry F. Stone.^[5]

Seabrooke became a leading actor in numerous comic operas and musicals which were staged on Broadway and toured nationally from the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century.^[6] The most successful of these were The Isle of Champagne (1894),Tabasco (1895), and A Chinese Honeymoon (1902).^[7]

At the age of 53, Seabrooke died from pneumonia on April 3, 1913, in Chicago.^[8]

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• Thomas Q. Seabrooke at the Internet Broadway Database