THE name Joseph Grimaldi may or may not sound familiar to you but, to many, he is so important to them that they visit a church service dedicated to him every year. But who was he and what is the c… ...

Scores of clowns march through east London for the annual church memorial service for Joseph Grimaldi Ballons, bunting, tiny hats, unicycles, red noses and novelty flowers adorned All Saints ...

Joseph "Joey" Grimaldi, born in 1778, first appeared as a clown in 1800. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grimaldi's clown was "exuberant, mischievous, ...