William Tudor Hall, usually known as William Tudor, was born in Lambeth (then in Surrey) and he died in Blyth, Northumberland on 20 August 1940. He led a busy life in the Circus and for decades before he first visited Blyth, and for some time after, he seems never to have stood still. He packed in two or three wives, several children, numerous horses and ponies, the occasional goat, performances for other circus proprietors, and his own temporary and permanent circuses, cinemas, and a dance hall.

The time he spent in Cambridge was but a small part of all this. From his first visit to Blyth in 1892 he was popular in that town and he regularly worked in other towns within a few miles in Northumberland and Durham. Blyth is where he and Edith Butler eventually settled and lived out their old age.

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