CALDERON, GEORGE (1868-1915), British dramatist, was born in London on Dec. 2, 1868, the son of the painter Philip H. Calderon, R.A. Educated at Rugby and Trinity college, Ox ford, he spent two years in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) 97 ), and from that time onwards took a deep interest in Russian literature and in the dialects and folk-lore of the Slav peoples generally. He was for a short time an official of the British Mu seum. His first play, The Fountain, was produced by the Stage Society in 1909. His collected plays were posthumously printed in 1921-22; they included a tragedy in blank verse entitled Cromwell: Mall o'Monks. He wrote one volume of impressions of travel, Tahiti, after a visit to the South Seas in 1906. In the World War Calderon served first as an interpreter in France and then as a line officer in the Dardanelles. His name was in the wounded and missing list of June 4, 1915.