![]() ![]() ![]() The first reference to the firm's selling theatre tickets appeared in an article published in 1786 in the Morning Chronicle, referring to "The New System of Ticket Agents". The company entered the theatre ticketing business after acquiring "Theater Ticket Messengers" a company which used young message boys to go to theatres and either hold seats or collect seat tokens for favoured clients. In 1830 he entered a partnership with another musical instrument manufacturer and music publisher, William Prowse (1801–1886), to form Keith, Prowse & Co. Robert William Keith (1767–1846), a musical composer, instrument maker and organist at the New Jerusalem Church, Friars Street, London, opened a shop in London in the late 18th century. It later became theatre ticket agency and a music publisher after a merger with the Peter Maurice company it became KPM and was acquired by EMI in 1969. The Keith Prowse company originated from a partnership in 1830 between two musical instrument makers to open a shop selling their goods. ![]()
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