Actor-manager. Born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset. Brought up in near poverty and was afflicted with a pronounced speech impediment. The first actor to be knighted. 1878 - 1902 he managed the Lyceum Theatre. For 25 years Ellen Terry partnered him in lavish productions of Shakespeare. It was also a long and personal partnership but the degree of intimacy is unknown. It is said that Stoker based the character of Dracula on Irving, his employer. Died after a performance, in the Midland Hotel, Bradford. His ashes were carried up the aisle of Westminster Abbey in a prop coffin.
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Sir Henry Irving
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Henry Irving statue
Henry Irving Actor, born 1838, died 1905. Knight. Litt.D. Dublin, D. Litt. C...
Lyceum Theatre
Edgar Allan Poe's maternal grandparents performed as actors at this theatre, ...
Sir Henry Irving - W1
Sir Henry Irving, 1838 - 1905, actor, lived here, 1872 - 1899. Greater London...
Sir Henry Irving - W6
Actor, Henry Irving, (John Henry Brodribb), 1838 - 1905, lived on this site, ...
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Brixton Theatre foundation stone
Although not actually named, this lonely, vandalised stone is all that remain...
Sarah Siddons statue
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Theatre Courtyard Gallery, The
Their address is: New Inn Broadway London EC2A 3PR. From their website: "In 2008, a team of archaeologists from MOLA discovered the remains of The Theatre, one of London’s earliest playhouses, bur...
1 memorial
Bolshoi Ballet
Dance company. A school for a Moscow orphanage was created in 1773, and its pupils were employed by Prince Pyotr Urusov and the English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox, to form part of a new...
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Curtain Theatre
This, the second English purpose-built playhouse was erected very close to the first, The Theatre, and run by the same man, Burbage. Not named for the modern drape on a proscenium arch, but for it...
2 memorials
Bud Flanagan
Born Reuben Weinthrop above his family fried fish shop in Hanbury Street, where the plaque now is. The first half of the Flanagan & Allen double act, with Chesney Allen. These two were also bot...
1 memorial
Oscar Wilde
Born in Dublin as Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest', 'Picture of Dorian Gray', etc. A flamboyant aesthete, he may have been Grossmith's model for the character Bunt...
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Francis Barraud
Painter based in Liverpool. Born London or Liverpool (sources differ). Son of Henry, also an artist, and brother to Mark, a theatre scenery painter, whose dog Nipper, he (possibly with another brot...
1 memorial
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