The Beerbohm family are the descendants of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (9 April 1810 – 30 August 1892), the son of Ernest Henery Beerbohm (12 May 1763 – 22 May 1838) and Henrietta Radke (1767–1855), and of Dutch, Lithuanian and German origin, who hailed from Memel (now renamed

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and the chief port of Lithuania) on the

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coast. He moved to England in about 1830 and set up as a corn merchant. He first married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper (1827–1858); the couple had four children. Following her death, in 1860 he married Eliza Draper (1834–1918), Constantia's sister, and had another five children. As a deceased wife's sister, Eliza's marriage to Julius Beerbohm was celebrated outside the United Kingdom.

Descendants of Julius and Constantia Beerbohm

:::1 Ernest Beerbohm (1850 – ?) who went to

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as a sheep farmer in

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and married a native South African :::2

Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous progr ...

married actress Helen Maud Holt (1858-1937) in 1882. Their children were: ::::*

Viola Tree Viola Tree (17 July 1884 – 15 November 1938) was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majesty's Theatre. Later she appe ...

(1884–1938) married drama critic, Alan Leonard Romaine Parsons (1889–1933). Their children were: :::::*

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:::::* Denys Parsons, who married Kelty MacLeod :::::**

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(born 1948) :::::** Paul Parsons. :::::* Virginia Penelope Parsons (9 April 1917 – 18 September 2003), wife successively of David Pax Tennant (a son of the 1st

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) and of

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. They had one daughter. ::::* Felicity Tree (1895–1978) married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, 3rd

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. They had five sons: :::::* Captain (Anthony John) Julian Cory-Wright (29 August 1916 – 26 June 1944), whose only son is the present baronet. :::::* Michael Cory-Wright (5 March 1920 – 3 January 1997) :::::
David Arthur Cory-Wright
(19 March 1925 – 10 January 2009) who md 1stly and 3rdly Lady Jane Douglas, sister of

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and had children :::::* Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright (19 March 1925 – 9 April 1945) :::::* Mark Richard Geoffrey Cory-Wright (21 March 1930 – 4 August 2004) married and left children. ::::*

Iris Tree Iris Tree (27 January 1897 – 13 April 1968) was an English poet, actress and artists' model, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventurer. Biography Tree's parents were actors Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Helen Maud, Lady T ...

(1897-1968) married firstly

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. :::::*

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screenwriter. He married firstly Natasha Sorokin – marriage dissolved. ::::::* Lorna Moffat :::::* He married secondly The Hon Katharine Smith, the daughter of the Rt. Hon William Henry Smith The 3rd Viscount Hambleden, of W.H.Smith's. ::::::* Jonathan Moffat (born 1964) :::::::* Georgina Moffat (born 1990), actress who appeared in the TV series '' Skins''. ::::::* Patrick Moffat (born 1968) :::::* Ivan Moffat had an affair with author Lady Caroline Blackwood ::::::* Ivana Lowell (born 1966) ::::: Iris Tree's second marriage was to the actor and ex-officer of the

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n cavalry, Count Friedrich von Ledebur-Wicheln. ::::Herbert Beerbohm Tree also had seven illegitimate children from his numerous affairs, among them the director

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and Peter Reed, whose son became the actor

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(who played Bill Sikes in the musical Oliver!). Another was the actress

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. :::3 Julius Beerbohm engineer and explorer – married Mrs Evelyn Younghusband. :::::* Clarence Evelyn Beerbohm (1885-1917) – musical comedy actor and soldier, killed in action during

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. He married Elizabeth H. Littlewood (1881-1967) in 1909 in London. ::::::* John David Russel Beerbohm (1910-1989) :::::* Marie Marguerite Beerbohm (born 1890) – married Ernest Alexander Stuart Watt (1874 - 1954) on 22 February 1912 at the register office, Hanover Square - marriage dissolved 1913Divorce petition
in

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:::4 Constance Beerbohm – author and house keeper for Eliza, her father's second wife.

Descendants of Julius and Eliza Beerbohm

:::1 Agnes Mary Beerbohm (1865–1949), who married Ralph Neville in 1884, was a friend of the artist

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, modelling for him in his 1906 painting ''Fancy Dress''. ::: She married, secondly, Edmund Francis Vesey Knox (1865 - 1921) :::2 Dora Beerbohm (1868 –13 August 1940); in 1894 became a

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in the Anglican Order of Sisters of Mercy at St Saviour's Priory in Ilford. Died shortly after a fall down some steps at the Priory. :::3 Marie Beerbohm – died young :::4 Daughter – died young :::5

Max Beerbohm Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the '' Saturd ...

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfred Grévin (1827–1892) * Alf ...

and parodist, who married: :::: Florence Kahn in 1910 – no children ::::

Elisabeth Jungmann Elisabeth Jungmann (Lady Beerbohm) (1894 – 28 December 1958) was an interpreter and the secretary, literary executor and second wife of the writer, caricaturist and parodist Sir Max Beerbohm. Born to a German Jewish family in Lublinitz ...

in 1956 – no children

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