Cyril Maude

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person Cyril Francis Maude (24 April 1862 — 20 February 1951) was an English actor-manager.

Biography

Maude was born in London and educated at Wixenford and Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship City of Adelaide to regain his health.<ref name=HAT>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=DrJay>Template:Cite news</ref> He returned to Britain without having regained his health, but nursing the ambition to be an actor.<ref name=HAT/>

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Maude circa 1913

He studied acting under Charles Cartwright and Roma Le Thiere,<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> but was forced to leave the country again for health reasons. He travelled to Canada and America, fulfilling his acting ambition with Daniel Bandman's company in Denver, Colorado in 1884.<ref name=":0" />

Between 1896 until 1905 he was co-manager of the Haymarket Theatre in London with Frederick Harrison. There he became known for his quietly humorous acting in many parts. However in 1900 he managed the production of the Little Minister at the Regent Theatre in Salford.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1906 he went into management on his own account, and in 1907 he opened the Playhouse, also in London.Template:Sfn Between 1911 and 1919 he acted largely in the United States where he played new comedies. He returned to London in 1919 and established himself at the Criterion Theatre.Template:Sfn

Maude became very well known for his role in Grumpy as a spoilt old man, who as a retired lawyer solved a crime to keep his loved ones happy. Maude took this play to Australia and toured Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney where it was immensely popular.<ref name=HAT/><ref name=DrJay/> In 1923 he toured America with Lydia Bilbrook and Mabel Terry-Lewis in If Winter Comes, playing at Chicago in April and New York in the autumn.<ref>"Dramatis Personae", The Observer, 25 February 1923, p. 11</ref>

Films

He starred in several films in the 1930s, including Grumpy. In 1947, he appeared at the age of 85 in the film While the Sun Shines.

Personal life

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Winifred Emery with her children, c.1901

Maude was the eldest son of Captain Charles Henry Maude, a captain in the Indian Army, and the Honorable Georgina Hanbury-Tracy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His maternal grandfather was Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley.

In 1888, Maude married actress Winifred Emery, the daughter of Samuel Anderson Emery and granddaughter of John Emery, both well-known actors in their day.Template:Sfn Their children included Margery Maude, who became an actress; Pamela Cynthia Maude (1893–1975); and John Cyril Maude, who became a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament.<ref>The family of Winifred Emery on thepeerage.com, accessed 8 June 2011</ref> Pamela Maude married Major William La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC on 1 June 1916. He was killed in action on 20 July 1916 during World War I, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.<ref>Eton College – Rolls of Honour, accessed 8 June 2011</ref> On 22 December 1919 she married the Hon. William Fraser, DSO, MC (1890–1964), who later became a Brigadier.<ref>Lord Saltoun of Abernethy Template:Webarchive on cracroftpeerage.co.uk, accessed 8 June 2011</ref>

They also brought up a niece, Winifred Isabel Emery (1890–1972),<ref name="Gas">Gascoyne, David, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 2 June 2011</ref><ref name="Dark">Dark, Sidney and Rowland Grey. W. S. Gilbert: His Life and Letters, Methuen & Co Ltd, London (1923), pp. 222–223</ref> after the girl was abandoned by Emery's brother in 1895. This niece, together with her pupil Ruby Preece, was present when dramatist W. S. Gilbert died in his lake at Grim's Dyke in May 1911.<ref>Goodman, Andrew. Grim's Dyke: A Short History of the House and Its Owners, Glittering Prizes Template:ISBN, pp. 17–18</ref> Winifred Isabel Emery was the mother of poet David Gascoyne.<ref name="Gas" />

Actors' Orphanage Fund

In 1905, Maude succeeded Sir Henry Irving as the President of the Actors' Orphanage Fund. During his tenure, he established the first orphanage for actors' children at Croydon, inaugurated innovative fundraising schemes and events, attracted royal patronage, and secured committee members from among leading actors of the day. He served until 1914. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Death

Maude died at Torquay, Devon on 20 February 1951.<ref name=CP>Template:Cite web</ref>

Filmography

References

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