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CHARLES HENRY HAWTREY (1858— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES HENRY HAWTREY (1858— )  ,
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English actor, was born at
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Eton, where his
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father was master of the
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lower school, and educated at
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Rugby and Oxford . He took to the stage in 1881, and in 1883 adapted von Moser's Bibliothekar as The Private Secretary, which had an enormous success . He then appeared in
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London in a number of
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modern plays, in which he was conspicuous as a comedian . He was unapproachable for parts in which cool imperturbable lying constituted the leading characteristic . Among his later successes A Message from Mars was particularly popular in London and in
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America .

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