DEAD FAMOUS LONDONERS: RICHARD D’OYLY CARTE

DEAD FAMOUS LONDONERS: RICHARD D’OYLY CARTE

Most people think the Savoy Hotel was built by a hotelier. It wasn’t. Richard D’Oyly Carte was a theatre impresario who needed a place for his opera-going audience to sleep. That distinction matters — because it explains everything about the man, his money, and the monument he left in central London. D’Oyly Carte died in