Gervase Elwes, English tenor and actor (born 1866)

Gervase Elwes

English tenor (1866–1921)

Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, DL, better known as Gervase Elwes, was an English tenor of great distinction, who exercised a powerful influence over the development of English music from the early 1900s up until his death in 1921 due to a railroad accident in Boston at the height of…