Frank Saldo

Frank Saldo, born Frank Harold Woollaston in Holloway, London, on 10 July 1882, was an early bodybuilder and a member of the strongman act The Montague Brothers with his brothers Monte Saldo and Edwin Woollaston. He developed an interest in physical culture young, travelled in the stage act of Eugen Sandow in the late 1890s, went to the Sorbonne in 1901 to study physiology, and in 1903 joined his brothers in the act that opened at the Hippodrome in London and toured Amsterdam, Dresden, Hamburg, Prague and Paris. He later left the act to write song lyrics, served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, and from 1920 until his death lectured in physical training at Goldsmiths College. He died in the Middlesex Hospital in June 1939, aged 57.