Maybrick played the or­gan at St Peter’s Church (his fa­ther was par­ish clerk), 1855-1865. In 1866, he went to stu­dy in Leip­zig, and dis­cov­ered he had a fine bar­i­tone voice. He de­buted in Lon­don as a sing­er in 1869 and ap­peared with the Na­tion­al Op­era Com­pa­ny at the St. James The­a­tre in Oc­to­ber 1871. He took the stage name Ste­phen Adams, and with Fred­er­ick Wea­ther­ly wrote hun­dreds of song such as “A War­rio­r Bold” and “Nan­cy Lee.” His ca­reer as a pop­u­lar mu­sic hall ar­tist de­clined af­ter his sis­ter-in-law’s much pub­li­cized 1889 tri­al for poi­son­ing her hus­band. In 1893, May­brick left Lon­don and re­tired to the Isle of Wight. While there, he was elect­ed may­or of Ryde five times, and be­came pre­si­dent of the Isle of Wight Con­serv­a­tive As­so­ci­a­tion and chair­man of the coun­ty hos­pi­tal.

Music

1. The Ho­ly City