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connected with the Baths for
nearly a quarter of a century.
Frederick’s ‘family of frogs’
started giving public displays
in the early 1860s and in
1865 he included Agnes,
introducing her as a two-year-
old, although she was
probably older. By the time
she was nine she was
performing with her brother
Willie, himself a champion
swimmer, as ‘Les Enfants
Poissons’ in a plate-glass