HORNIMAN, ANNIE ELIZABETH FREDERICKA (186o—I937), British theatrical manager, was born at Forest Hill, London, on Oct. 3, 1860. Educated privately, she studied art for a period at the Slade school under Professor Legros. At an early age she became interested in the theatre, and to the furtherance of this cause most of her subsequent life was de voted. Her first theatrical enterprise at the Avenue theatre, Lon don, in 1894, was a failure. In 5904 she became associated with the Abbey theatre, Dublin, and subsidised the Irish National Theatre Society, which presented a series of plays by Irish dra matists dealing with various phases of Irish life. She will be chiefly remembered, however, for her institution in 2907 of the Repertory Theatre movement in Manchester. She acquired the Gaiety theatre, Manchester, in 1908 and converted it into a repertory house in which some of the best known plays of modern times were originally produced. In 1921 she relinquished her control as owner and conductor of this enterprise, after 54 years of unbroken success. She died in Surrey on August 6, 1937. See P. P. Howe, The Repertory Theatre: a Record and a Criticism (1910).