Lumley, Benjamin, 1811-1875

found: Another world, or, Fragments from the star city of Montalluyah, 1873:t.p. (Hermes ; attributed to Benjamin Lumley)

found: OCLC, Sept. 14, 2000(hdg.: Lumley, Benjamin, 1812-1875; usage: Benjamin Lumley; Hermes)

found: Wikipedia, July 3, 2024(Benjamin Lumley; Benjamin Lumley (1811 - 17 March 1875 in London) was a British North America-born British opera manager and solicitor; born Benjamin Levy, he was the son of a Jewish merchant, Louis Levy)

found: Music in nineteenth-century Britain, 2022:page 23 (Benjamin Lumley, Reminiscences of the Opera; Benjamin Lumley (1812-1875) began his association with Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket as a legal assistant to Pierre Laporte (1799-1841); on Laporte's death, he was invited to take over its management, where he remained until financial pressure forced him to give up the association in 1864)

found: jewishencyclopedia.com, July 3, 2024(Lumley, Benjamin; director of Her Majesty's Theatre, Drury Lane, London; born in Canada 1811; died in London March 17, 1875; he was the son of Louis Levy, a Canadian merchant who died in London about 1831; Benjamin was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and early in life assumed the name "Lumley;" in 1832 he became a solicitor in London, and from 1837 to 1842 was a parliamentary agent, publishing in 1838 a standard book on "Parliamentary Practise on Passing Private Bills;" from 1836 to 1841 he superintended the finances of Her Majesty's Theatre for Laporte, and on September 25, 1841, succeeded him in the management; he introduced into England over thirty Italian operas, including Donizetti's "La Favorita," Verdi's "Ernani" and "La Traviata," and Auber's "Masaniello;" Lumley wrote two fantastic works of fiction: "Sirenia," 1862; and "Another World," 1873; he published also his "Reminiscences," 1864) - https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10185-lumley-benjamin

found: sf-encyclopedia.com, July 3, 2024(Lumley, Benjamin (1811-1875); Canadian-born lawyer, entrepreneurial opera manager and author, who wrote at least once as Hermes; in UK from well before 1832, by which point he had permanently changed his surname from Levy; author of: Sirenia; or, Recollections of a Past Existence (London: Richard Bentley, 1863) anonymous; Another World; or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah (London: Samuel Tinsley, 1873) as by Hermes) - https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lumley_benjamin