born august english businessman known elephant man later exhibits troupe man trance carpenter world woman norman started working life butcher sussex moving london age sought career music hall stage interested freak shows attended spare time viewing exhibition called electric lady door place work went business exhibition manager began career human quickly successful exhibits called silver king american norman took management known elephant man exhibited weeks police closed later went live london hospital care sir memoirs portrayed norman cruel drunk exploited acts norman refuted characterisation said provided means making money independently norman continued successful career later novelty shows norman died survived wife children followed entertainment business biography early life norman born sussex eldest children butcher farmer wife née norman introduced father trade early age left school work decided travelling years later seek career performer unsuccessful short moved london worked butcher assistant norman moved took professional gambling wound resumed trade london gained new interest freak entertainment unsuccessful venture norman returned butcher day viewed penny place employment electric lady lady born electricity gave audience members electrical shock norman impressed exhibition realised lucrative potential left job enter business manager quickly discovered fake connected supply electricity exhibited norman realised better working successfully staged electric lady learned skills entertainer important success exhibited point changed birth renounced inheritance according biographers norman changed avoid family connections years norman travelling exhibitions featured skeleton woman balloon headed baby woman bit heads live rats act norman claimed seen acts included fat ladies giants retired white seamen painted black speaking invented language billed savage displayed family reality composed men borrowed baby operated number shops london nottingham exhibited travelling shows country norman gave unknown norman attended american norman falsely claimed audience past booked appear greatest earth seeing norman silver necklace noting gift dubbed silver king shops london norman ran shortage travelled country looking new acts human employ promises generous salaries elephant man norman came contact young man leicester extreme unable find work physical appearance ended leicester years left charge music hall travelling little george collectively presented elephant man half man half elephant quickly realised able long place fear novelty wearing end contacted norman acquaintance transferred management elephant man arrived london norman care norman initially shocked appearance reluctant display nonetheless exhibited penny shop road directly road london hospital proximity hospital shop received medical students doctors visitors surgeon arranged brought hospital examined according norman autobiography went hospital times refused examinations feel like animal cattle market exhibition elephant man reasonably successful particularly added income printed pamphlet life condition time public opinion freak shows starting change display human beginning viewed weeks norman elephant man exhibition shut police norman parted ways later arranged live london hospital death memoir elephant man norman portrayed drunk exploited norman claims letter world fair newspaper year autobiography norman opinion provided exhibits way making living remaining independent entering remained freak display control viewed character respectively portrayed film elephant man based norman later life norman remained travelling years following encounter exhibited troupe man trance carpenter world woman announced leaving chicago advertised goods sale end went involved movement vice president later novelty shows according world fair presided sales country time norman married theatre performer sons daughters family moved norman went semi retirement selling shops sold lord zoo circus effects achievement norman called point life regards business comeback exhibition strange girl birmingham final years death norman died throat cancer august hospital aged children followed circus careers george circus tom worked known professionally travelling performer appearing europe united_states
Tom Norman