The Honourable Mary Augusta Pakington (1878 – 1949) was an English playwright and actor and daughter of the Third
Baron Hampton
Baron Hampton, of Hampton Lovett and of Westwood in the County of Worcester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1874 for the Conservative politician Sir John Pakington, 1st Baronet.
History
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Early life
Pakington was born on 21 June 1878, the daughter of the
Third Baron Hampton, Herbert Perrott Murray Pakington (1848–1906).
She was the eldest sister of the
Fourth Baron, Lord Hampton (Herbert Stuart Pakington), and Humphrey Arthur Pakington, an authority on architecture.
The Hampton residence was at Waresley Court, Kidderminster.
Career
Pakington wrote and acted in her 1913 comedy sketch ''The Old Clock on the Stairs.''
She wrote a number of one act plays. ''The House with Twisty Windows'' was set in
Petrograd during the
Red Terror.
It was performed by the
Lena Ashwell
Lena Margaret Ashwell, Lady Simson ( Pocock; 28 September 1872 – 13 March 1957) was a British actress and theatre manager and producer, known as the first to organise large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during Wo ...
Players.
Five of her one act plays were written as plays for
Scout entertainment: ''One Good Turn Deserves Another, Jane or The Scout's Nightmare, The Laurel Crown, Mixed Pickles'' and ''The N'th Scout Law.''
She also wrote three act plays. ''The Tower'' was produced in London in 1929. In 1937 Pakington and Olive Walter wrote a three act play ''Wuthering Heights,'' based on
Emily Brontë's novel, which was performed at The Strand by the 1930 Players.
Pakington and Walter were both associated with the professional company the Greater London Players.
She wrote one historical pageant ''The Queen of Hearts'' in which
Queen Elizabeth I
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visited
Hartlebury Castle
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She was a judge of one act plays at the
British Drama League's Community Drama Festival in Wolverhampton.
Honours and awards
From 1915 to 1919 Pakington was a
British Red Cross Society
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Volunteer in
Worcestershire
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doing nursing and general hospital work. She was awarded an
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in the
1920 New Years Honours list as the Honorary Secretary, Worcestershire Women's County Agricultural Committee.
During
World War II
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she served in the
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and Civil Defence.
Pakington, who was unmarried, died on 25 September 1949.
* ''A Doctor's Engagements'' (1903)
*''Ready'' (1910)
*''The Old Clock on the Stairs'' (1913)
* ''The Patriot'' (1914)
* ''Shakespeare for Merrie England'' (1915)
*''Rosalind of the Farmyard'' (1920)
*''One Good Turn Deserves Another'' (1920)
*''Jane or The Scout's Nightmare'' (1920)
*''The Laurel Crown'' (1920)
*''Mixed Pickles'' (1920)
*''The N'th Scout Law'' (1920)
*''The Polar Post'' (1920)
*''Two Christmas Plays'' (1923)
*''The House with the Twisty Windows'' (1926)
*''The Queen of Hearts'' (1926) - a pageant
*''The True Likeness'' (1928)
*''The Scarlett Mantle'' (1928)
*''The Tower'' (1929)
*''The Black Horseman'' (1929)
*''All Camouflage: an episode of the war'' (1931)
*''Tear up the Joker!'' (1931)
*''Poet's Corner'' (1931)
*''Experiment'' (1932)
* ''Wuthering Heights'' (1937)
*''Nil Medium'' (1937)
*''Blow, Bugle, Blow!'' (1941)
*''Time and Mrs Podbury'' (1948)