The Eight Lancashire Lads was a troupe of young male dancers who toured the music hall

Music hall

Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...

s of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

They were founded by Bill Cawley and J.W. (William) Jackson (1863–1940) of Wigan

Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...

, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

. As they became more successful, they recruited other members - such as Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

, who got his first professional break with them at the age of twelve.

Former members

• Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
  
• Nat Jackley
  Nat Jackley
  Nat Jackley was an English comic actor starring in variety, film and pantomime from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s whose trademark rubber-neck dance, skeletal frame and peculiar speech impediment made him a formidable and funny pantomime dame.His later years were spent as a character actor in...
  
  
• Richard, Eric and Clem White (brothers) went to Sydney, Australia in the 1910s and formed theatre companies inc. Edgley and Dawe.(they changed their names from White (Successful Australian theatrical empressarion Michael Edgley is descended from Eric Edgley (White)); his bother, Richard White was for a period the choreographer (female chorus) at the Tivoli in Sydney. Michael White (Made Wijaya) an exotic dancer and humorist resident in Bali
  Bali
  Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...
  
  since 1973 is descended from Richard White (grandson).