On 24 May 1927 his wife Edith, from whom he had been separated since 1904, died in her sleep of diabetes.
Karno spent his last years in southwest England in the village of Lilliput, Dorset as a part-owner of an off-licence bought with financial help from another of his protégés, Charlie Chaplin,[REF] and died there in 1941 from diabetes, aged 75 [REF].