Billy Smart, Jr was widely known in Britain as a circus performer and impresario. Smart, whose real name was Stanley, was the tenth child and third son of Billy Smart, Sr. His father was a showman and fairground proprietor, who bought a circus in 1946. Smart made his circus debut with "Billy Smart’s New World Circus" as assistant ringmaster aged 12. He was soon performing with ponies and horses, but became best known later for his elephant acts. Wikipedia
Billy Smart Jr, scion of the famous circus family, was a distinguished trainer of horses, but he will be most widely remembered for his ambitious elephant acts, which featured up to 20 full-grown Asiatic elephants. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1624855,00.html
Billy Smart Junior was born on October 15 1934, the youngest of the 10 children of Billy Smart (himself one of 23), a travelling showman who had dominated the field in Britain since the 1930s. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/24/...
Billy Smart Jr, one of Britain's circus legends who once tamed a frisky herd of performing elephants when they stampeded in the ring in response to a too-loud Gypsy number, died yesterday, aged 71. www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1490581,00.html
1946 heralded the first ever Billy Smart's Circus which appeared at Southall Park and then toured alongside Smart's Funfair. www.billy-smarts-circus.co.uk/history.php
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Billy Smart Junior was born on October 15 1934, the youngest of the 10 children of Billy Smart (himself one of 23), a travelling showman who had dominated the field in Britain since the 1930s. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/24/...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Billy Smart Jr. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Smart%2c_Jr