Staveley, Robert

Dancing master from Hawes, Wensleydale, Yorkshire.

He taught dancing in his spare time and held classes every winter charging 1/- a night (5p).  Known to have been teaching in about 1897.  He was not a musician and employed a local man Octavius Metcalf to play the fiddle for the classes.

His repertoire is not known.

He taught Mr & Mrs Thwaite.

Information derived from an interview by Tom Flett with Mr & Mrs Thwaite on  6 April 1960.