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John Henry Brodribb Irving ( February 6, 1838– October 13, 1905), better known as Sir Henry Irving, was one of the most famous stage actors of all time.

He was born at Keinton Mandeville in the English county of Somerset, and worked as a clerk in London before becoming an actor. His first appearances were in Scotland and the north of England, and he did not tread the London stage until 1866. He played all the major Shakespearean roles, including Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello, and by 1878, when he entered into a partnership with the actress Ellen TerryEllen Alice Terry ( February 27, 1847 July 21, 1928) was an English stage actress. Born in Coventry, she came of a theatrical family, her brother Fred Terry and several of her other siblings being actors. She first appeared on stage as a child. On 20 Febr and became manager of the Lyceum Theatre, London , he was already famous. In 1895Events January events January 5 Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. February events February 14 First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnes, he became the first actor ever to receive a knighthood. He and Ellen Terry continued to work together until 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage, but the Lyceum had to be sold in 1898Events January 1 New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. January 13 Emile Zola's J'accus. One of Irving's sons, Laurence IrvingLaurence Irving ( 1871- 1914) was a British dramatist and novelist. Laurence Irving was a son of the Victorian actor-manager, Sir Henry Irving. It was thanks to the financial failure of one of Laurence's plays that his father was forced to sell the Lyceum, was a dramatistA dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. The term is usually reserved for those who have written "serious" plays (as opposed to comedies or farces. A more general term for an author of plays, of whatever type, is playwright. See a.

He was buried in Westminster Abbeyexoskeleton formed by flying buttresses. The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster Westminster Abbey , a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. It is located in.