IRVING, LAURENCE SYDNEY BRODRIBB (1871 1914), English actor, younger son of Sir Henry Irving (q.v.), was born in London on Dec. 21, 1871. He was educated at Marl borough and abroad, being destined for the diplomatic service; but he joined Frank Benson's Shakespearean company in 1893, and made his first professional appearance in London in 1894 in Barrie's Walker, London. He married Mabel Hackney, the actress, and with his wife played in Brieux's The Three Daughters of M.
Dupont, and The Incubus, as well as in The Unwritten Law—his own adaptation of Dostoievsky's Crime and Punishment—and in Lengyell's Typhoon. He wrote Peter the Great (produced by his
father in 1898), Bonnie Dundee and Richard Lovelace, as well as a number of translations and adaptations of plays. Both he and his wife lost their lives when the "Empress of Ireland" sank in the St. Lawrence river on May 29, 1914. See A. Brereton, "H.B." and Laurence Irving (1922).