1932. He was the husband of, and subsequently divorced from, actress Marie Rosa Burke (née Altfuldisch) and the father of actress Patricia Burke who was born in Milan, Italy on 23 March 1917. He was subsequently married in December 1935 to Pauline Steele-Dixon with whom he had another daughter Jenifer J.A.B. Burke in June 1937. Tom Burke died in Carshalton, Surrey on 13 September 1969, aged 79. Thomas Burke is remembered in Leigh with the naming of the local Wetherspoon's public house in the former Leigh Grand Theatre and Hippodrome building. References External links 1890 births 1969 deaths English operatic tenors 20th-century British male opera singers People from Leigh, Greater Manchester