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R. SANTLEY was born at Liverpool, and received a thorough musical training in

England and under Gaetano Nava in Milan. At twenty-three he appeared at St. Martin's Hall as Adam in the "Creation." From that time to the present few figures have been so familiar and so popular as Mr. Santley's. He is acknowledged to be the finest English baritone singer of the day, and the master not only of a voice of rare power and beauty, but of a taste and feeling almost rarer. Mr. Santley is also an enthusiastic amateur painter. He married a granddaughter of Charles Kemble, and one of his daughters has inherited his gifts and followed his profession.