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George Procter Hawtrey (1847–1910) was a British actor, playwright and pageantmaster, and former schoolmaster.
Hawtrey did not make a notable success as an actor, raising his family in "straitened circumstances" which inspired his son, Ralph, to follow the more remunerative path of the civil service. Hawtrey's most notable achievement in connection with the stage was his adaptation of Baron von Moser's farce ''Mit Vergnügen'' (The Pickpocket), in which his brother Charles acted. He also assisted in preparing ''A Message From Mars'' for the stage. In 1908, Hawtrey became master of the Gloucestershire Historical Pageant at Cheltenham, followed by the National Pageant of Wales at Cardiff in October 1909 and the Chester Pageant in July 1910.
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawtrey, George Procter Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford English male stage actors People educated at Eton College 1847 births 1910 deaths 19th-century English male actors
Early life and education
Hawtrey was son of Reverend John William Hawtrey, headmaster of the Alden House School at Slough. Hawtrey's two brothers, William and Charles, were also actors. He was educated atEton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...
and Pembroke College, Oxford. A cousin was the economist Alfred Marshall.
Academia
Having been assistant master at the school founded by his father, Hawtrey decided to leave teaching and follow his brother, Charles, onto the stage.Stage career
Hawtrey did not make a notable success as an actor, raising his family in "straitened circumstances" which inspired his son, Ralph, to follow the more remunerative path of the civil service. Hawtrey's most notable achievement in connection with the stage was his adaptation of Baron von Moser's farce ''Mit Vergnügen'' (The Pickpocket), in which his brother Charles acted. He also assisted in preparing ''A Message From Mars'' for the stage. In 1908, Hawtrey became master of the Gloucestershire Historical Pageant at Cheltenham, followed by the National Pageant of Wales at Cardiff in October 1909 and the Chester Pageant in July 1910.
Personal life
Hawtrey married firstly, in 1873, Eda (died 1892), daughter of William Strahan; he married secondly, Gertrude Jessie Rolls, daughter of Captain John Simon Chandos Harcourt, of Ankerwycke, Buckinghamshire. He fathered one son- the economistRalph George Hawtrey
Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879, Slough – 21 March 1975, London) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the University of Cambridge intellectual secret society.
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- and two daughters.The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Essex volume, Melville Henry Massue, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994 (reprint), p. 611 According to an obituary published in ''The Times
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'', Hawtrey died of heart failure on 17 August 1910 at his London residence, Clarence Gate Mansions, at Marylebone
Marylebone (usually , also , ) is a district in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. Oxford Street, Europe's busiest shopping street, forms its southern boundary.
An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough, it me ...
(today Clarence Gate Gardens) following a severe bout with asthma while putting on the Chester Pageant in July of that year. He was 63 years old.
References
Finding Aid for the George P. Hawtrey Papers
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawtrey, George Procter Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford English male stage actors People educated at Eton College 1847 births 1910 deaths 19th-century English male actors