Gilbert Hasting MacDermott
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Life 1845-1901 [prop. Farrell]; music hall singer; performed a patriotic song George William Hunt entitled We Dont Want to Fight which includes the word jingo [hence jingoism], taken up by the pro-war party during the Russo-Turkish conflict, 1878; wrote melodramas incl. Driven from Home (1871); regarded as the last
lion comique of the English music-hall. ODNB
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