Irving family
Sir Henry Irving
The Irving Family are the descendants of Samuel Brodribb, (born c.1800 at Clutton - died in Bristol 20 June 1876), a salesman who collected orders for the tailoring department of a local store, and his wife Mary, née Behenna, (christened 31 January 1808 at Lelant, Cornwall - died 1869), the daughter of a Cornish farming family.[1]
Their son was:
- Sir Henry Irving (1838 – 1905), born John Henry Brodribb,[1] a notable English stage actor in the Victorian era. He married Florence O'Callaghan on 15 July 1869 at St.Marylebone, London.
Henry Irving was the father of:
- Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving (1871-1914), an English actor, dramatist and novelist.[2]
- Harry Brodribb Irving (1870-1919),[2] an actor, who married the actress Dorothea Baird.[3] Their children were:
- Laurence Irving OBE (1897-1988), a Hollywood set designer and art director. He married Rosalind Woolner, the grand-daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor, Thomas Woolner. Their children are:
- Pamela Mary Irving (born March 22, 1921).
- John H. B. Irving (born 1924)
- Elizabeth Irving OBE (1904- 2003), an actress, the Chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (W.I.) and the founder in 1955 of the Keep Britain Tidy Group. She married Sir Felix John Morgan Brunner, 3rd Bt.[4] Their sons are:
- Sir John Henry Kilian Brunner, 4th Bt. (b. 1 June 1927)
- Nicholas Laurence Brodribb Brunner1 (1 January 1929 - 3 March 1931)
- Timothy Barnabas Hans Brunner (b. 28 February 1932)
- Daniel Felix Brodribb Brunner (30 July 1933 - 28 November 1976)
- Sir Hugo Lawrence Joseph Brunner KCVO (b. 17 August 1935)
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