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General Tom Thumb was the shameless showman’s ticket to Buckingham Palace, respectability and a bigger payday. P.T. Barnum may be the only man in history who ever attempted to achieve respectability by taking a midget to Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Victoria. And somehow he pulled it off. It happened in 1844, when Barnum was …
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