![]() ![]() ![]() She further noted: "Unfortunately Errol at the age of nine did not yet possess that magic for extracting money from the public which so distinguished his career as an actor. In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as "a dashing figure-a handsome boy of nine with a fearless, somewhat haughty expression, already showing that sang-froid for which he was later to become famous throughout the civilized world". He made one of his first appearances as a performer in 1918, aged nine, when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival. įlynn received his early schooling in Hobart. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers. Both of his parents were Australian-born of Irish, English and Scottish descent. Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk" and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and the sea originated. His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but shortly after marrying Theodore at St John's Church of England, Birchgrove, Sydney, on 23 January 1909, she changed her first name to Marelle. ![]() His father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. Flynn at South West London College in 1923Įrrol Leslie Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 in Battery Point, Tasmania. ![]()
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