Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey (21 September 1858 – 30 July 1923) was a celebrated stage actor, comedian, director and producer/manager, knighted in 1922 by King George V. He was born at Eton College, where his father, the Reverend John Hawtrey, was master of the lower school. He was educated at Eton College, and at Rugby School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He managed London's Globe Theatre, the one demolished in 1902, during (1884–1887) and Royal Comedy Theatre (1887–1893, 1896–1898). He was noted for such works as The Private Secretary (his adaptation of a German farce, 1884), from which he earned the colossal sum of 123,000, but he was a gambler throughout his life (and owned a string of racehorses). In his own words: "I lost half-a-crown at a small race meeting. Ever since, I've been trying to get that half-crown back, and it must have cost me half a million." Another of his major successes was A Message from Mars by Richard Ganthony. He played in Somerset Maugham's plays Jack Straw and Home and Beauty. He created the role of Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.

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