George Rudd (b.1846)

George Rudd was employed by Oliver Sarony as principal photographer from around 1866. He left Sarony’s in 1886 and in 1887 rented a gallery from Nunn (Frederick?) for £1 a week for the first two months (August and September) and on commission thereafter (Scarborough Evening News, January 1859). He also used Nunn’s equipment. His address is listed as 9 Londesborough Road up to at least 1892. The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer lists Rudd as receiving orders prior to a bankruptcy case in 1888. The Scarborough Evening News lists his liabilities as £88 12s 10d with assets of only £30. He hoped to be taken back on at Sarony’s on £5 a week, but it is unclear if he was.

George Rudd was born in Driffield in 1846. His first wife, name unknown (as yet!), he had married in Scarborough Parish Church in 1867, and divorced in 1873. The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer carried reports of her general drunkenness and bad behaviour, causing initial separation with an allowance and later following he living with a man at Willoughby near Hull, divorce on account of adultery. He later married to Jane A. Rudd (b.1853 in Hull) and had three children, George William C. Rudd (Willie) (b.1878), Frank (b.1885) and Florie (b.1891).