Thomas Hemsley
Thomas Hemsley was born on April 12, 1927. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Thomas Hemsley
Thomas Jeffrey Hemsley, CBE (12 April 1927 – 11 April 2013) was an English baritone. Hemsley was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, and attended Ashby de la Zouch Grammar School. He took a degree in natural sciences from Brasenose College, Oxford. He moved to London and became a pupil of Lucie Manén, and also served as a Vicar Choral at St Paul's Cathedral. He made his debut in 1951 as Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the first Mermaid Theatre, London, alongside Kirsten Flagstad as Dido. The pair recorded the opera for EMI the same year. He debuted at Glyndebourne in 1953. He was…