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John Mounsey Thomson (1898 – 3 August 1935), who performed as John Tilley, was a British stage and radio comic monologuist. He was born in Edmonton, London; his father J. F. Thomson was a Scottish international amateur footballer. He served in the Gordon Highlanders and Royal Flying Corps, before losing money in an antiques business venture. He then studied medicine, but failed his examinations, and worked in various jobs including bank clerk, salesman, and advertising man. He attempted to sell advertising space to a theatre manager, who spotted his potential, and suggested that he perform his rambling, "inconsequential and lugubrious monologues" on stage.

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rdfs:comment	John Mounsey Thomson (1898 – 3 August 1935), who performed as John Tilley, was a British stage and radio comic monologuist. He was born in Edmonton, London; his father J. F. Thomson was a Scottish international amateur footballer. He served in the Gordon Highlanders and Royal Flying Corps, before losing money in an antiques business venture. He then studied medicine, but failed his examinations, and worked in various jobs including bank clerk, salesman, and advertising man. He attempted to sell advertising space to a theatre manager, who spotted his potential, and suggested that he perform his rambling, "inconsequential and lugubrious monologues" on stage. (en)
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