Person: PONTET, Henry (1833-1902)

Person summary

Biographical summary of this person

Full name

Henry Theodore PONTET

Alternative names

used pseudonym PICCOLOMINI, M.
used pseudonym NEMO,

Gender

male

Relevance of this person

composer of songs used with slide sets

Main period of activity

1870s-90s

Chronology

Date

Age

Event/activity

18 June 1833

born at

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

9 March 1902

died at

Hanwell, London W, England

Texts linked to this person

Songs (6)

Henry Pontet, Another day (n.d.)

‘Nemo’ and Henry Pontet (arr. Alfred Caldicott), The broken pitcher (London: W. Morley & Co., 1890)

K. Summers and Henry Pontet, Five o'clock tea (London: Enoch & Sons, 1883)

H.L. D'Arcy Jaxone and Henry Pontet, The last milestone (London: W. Marshall & Co., 1884)

Juba Kennerley and Henry Pontet, The last muster (London: Ashdown & Co., 1884)

‘Nemo’ and Henry Pontet, Tit for tat (London: Enoch & Sons, 1880)

Notes

Pontet was the son of a French emigré to Dublin and his Irish wife, and was baptised twice (as 'Henry' in 1833 and again as 'Théodore Henri' in 1844). He worked as a teacher before beginning to compose songs; he moved from Dublin to London in the 1870s.
As well as his working pseudonyms, Pontet adopted the surname Pontet-Piccolomini from around the 1880s. He married twice, the second time possibly bigamously. In spite of the considerable commercial success of some of his compositions he died in poverty after a period in a Hanwell Asylum, west London.
Many thanks to Patrick Pontet-Piccolomini for information about the life and career of his great-grandfather.

Lucerna ID 6001508

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 22 December 2012

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Person: PONTET, Henry (1833-1902)