Thomas Theobald Hohler He was the son of Reverend Frederick William Hohler and Jane Harriet Theobald.He married Henrietta Adela Hope, daughter of Henry Thomas Hope and Anne Adèle Bichet, on 7 April 1880.
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Thomas Theobald Hohler is Henry Booth Hohler's brother. Reports of the time described him as tall, good looking with a military bearing. He gave up a secure civil service job to go to Venice to study opera. He returned to London to sing professionally. Reading between the lines of reviews, he was a talented and entertaining tenor. But, he did not have that operatic projection needed to fill an auditorium with sound. Today, I suspect, with modern audio systems, he would be a successful recording artist in the line of Perry Como.
Cheltenham Chronicle Tuesday 30 May 1865 - page 2
A young English tenor, Mr. Tom Hohler, has been singing with immense success at Milan. The newspapers of that city speak of his performance in the Puritani in terms of rapturous praise. His voice is described as rich, pure, and flexible, and his method and style are equally commended. One journal promises him a career which will eclipse the success of his most briliant predecessors and contemporaries. We hear that Mr. Hohler is a son of the rector of Colesborne and Winstone.
Gloucester Journal Saturday 16 December 1865
Mr. Tom Hohler.--This gentleman, whose renown as a tenor singer is spreading far and wide, is the son of the Rev. F. W. Hohler, Rector of Winstone and of Colsborne, in this county, will doubtlessly receive a warm welcome on the occasion of his visit to Cheltenham on Thursday the 21st instant, on which day he is announced to appear, with other celebrities, at a concert to be given at the Assembly Rooms.--Cheltenham Times.
Gloucester Journal Saturday 28 April 1866
Operatic.--Mr. Tom Höhler, the young English tenor, late of Somerset House, has appeared at her Majesty's Theatre, and Mr. Punch is able to congratulate him most heartily upon his success. At the same time, he, Mr. Punch hereby warns all young and old unsters in drawing-rooms, dining-rooms, and club smoking-rooms that Mr. Höhler's name is not to be pronounced Huller or Hollea, for the sake of a verbal pleasantry; nor can any allusion be fairly made to Hullah's course, or a Hullaboloo, nor shall any words be need whose fun depends upon the brevity of the letter "u" in Hullah. Moreover, his name is not to be given like a Cockney mispronunciation of "hollow," as Holler, for the sake of making an unkind remark about Holler success, or verbal un-pleasantry of that sort. The following may be said, that his was no half triumph, but a whole one, and that the person speaking, for instance Mr. Punch himself, never saw a wholer (Höhler).
He quit professional singing, but often sang at formal or informal gatherings sometimes with his sister Louisa Harriet Hohler (Mrs. William Wallis Aston Esq.). He was often seen sitting with the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle in their box at the opera. When the Duke died, Thomas married the Duchess.
Marriage to Henrietta Adela Hope The widow of Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham Clinton the 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne;
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard Saturday 29 November 1879 - page 8;
Winstone. Romatic Engagement of a Duchess.--The Parisian says--"The English Colony in Paris is quite romantically excited over the reported engagement of marriage between a whilom tenor, the son of a clergyman, and an English duchess, recently widowed, and puissamment riche. The gentleman supported Miss Kellogg in operatic rôle during her first London season, some twelve years ago. We congratulate the fortunate artist, and the happy lady too. Her Grace evidently believes with Tennyson that 'true hearts are more than coronets.'"
Henrietta Hope was the daughter of Henry Thomas Hope as in Hope Diamond. See his bio here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Hope
Here are two of many obituaries:
Gloucester Citizen Wednesday 04 May 1892
Cheltenham News. The Death of Mr. Tom Hohler.--Mr. Tom Hohler died at Monte Carlo of dropsy early on Monday morning, after two months' illness. He had a bad attack on Sunday afternoon, but rallied later. About midnight, however, hios condition suddenly became worse, and he rapidlyu sank. Mr. Hohler was the son of the late Rev. F. W. Hohler, rector of Winstone and of Colesborne, Gloucestershire. The Daily Chronicle remarks that his death removes from the Covent Garden Opera House one of the best known of its habitues. In the height of the season the tall military figure of the deceased was easily discoverable in the stalls or in one of the boxes on the pit tier. Apart from compliance with the dicates of fashion, Mr. Tom Hohler had the fondness for the lyric state that as a rule results from previous association therewith. About fifteen years ago he made his debut as a tenor, under the management of Mr. Mapleson, and though he scarcely gave promise of eclipsing Mario, Giuglini, Fancelli, or any of the greater artists of his time, evinced some intelligence as an actor, together with vocal gifts that had been carefully cultivated. He quitted the boards as a vocalist to marry, in 1880, the Duchess of Newcastle, whose husband (the sixth Duke) died in 1879.
Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette Wednesday 04 May 1892
Death of Tom Hohler Tom Hohler, whose death is announced from Monte Carlo, was, on his debut as a light tenor in 1867 at the old Her Majesty's Theatre, one of the celebrities of the metropolis. Belonging to a good family of German origin, but long settled in England, Tom Hohler was from the first a prominent figure in society, and although even on the morrow of his first appearance as Arturo in Bellini's "Puritani" he was reminded by the Times, then the supreme power in criticism, that he was a mere amateur as a vocalist, while as an actor he exhibited no pretensions at all, he was perhaps more talked of than any other debutant of the season. Tom Hohler sang in 1868 at Drury Lane, and thereupon his stage career finished, for he was not a success, and after his marriage with the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle he quitted the profession. He was, however, a constant habitue of the opera, and particularly on "first-appearance" nights was almost always to be seen in the pit tier "omnibus" box.