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Carte managed the first tour of Trial by Jury, which stopped at the Theatre Royal in Dublin, Ireland, in September 1875.

While there, he met a young Scottish actress, Susan Couper Black, who used the stage name Helen Lenoir.

She became fascinated by his vision for establishing a company to promote English comic opera and gave up her next engagement to join his theatrical organisation as his secretary.

Well-educated, with an organisational ability, business acumen, focus on detail and diplomatic skills that surpassed even Carte's, Lenoir gradually became intensely involved in all of his business affairs.

Carte and Lenoir married in 1888, three years after the death of his first wife.