IRVING, HENRY BRODRIBB English actor, elder son of Sir Henry Irving (q.v.), was born in London on Aug. 5, 1870. He was educated at Marlborough and New Col lege, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1894; but he abandoned this profession for that of the stage, for which his inherited apti tude had always been very marked. At Oxford he belonged to the O.U.D.S. and played the leading parts in Browning's Straf ford and Shakespeare's King John. His first professional appear ance in London was made in Sept. 1891, with John Hare at the Garrick theatre in Robertson's School. In 1894 he joined Ben Greet's company, and met Miss Dorothea Baird, whom he mar ried in 1896 at the time of her great popular success in Du Maurier's Trilby. His earliest notable success was in Barrie's The
Admirable Crichton (1903). He repeated many of his father's famous parts, but did original work of a high order in Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stephen Phillips's The Sin of David, and many other productions. He was manager of the Savoy theatre from 1913 until his death. He was a keen student of criminology, and published a Life of Judge Jeffreys (1898) French Criminals of the 19th Century (19o1) ; and A Book of Remarkable Criminals (1918). He died in London on Oct. 17, 1919. See A. Brereton, "H.B." and Laurence Irving (1922).