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… ...

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, larcenous, and ...