Famous Yorkshire strongman, born in 1903, Tolson took his stage name from his own hero, the fabulous early strength athlete, Louis Uni, the original Apollon.
From 1925 onwards he toured the Music & Variety Halls with a strongman act issuing challenges for all kinds of feats.
He retired in the 1930s and devoted himself to improving others with his highly successful postal course which ran well into the 1950s.