Henry Irving_
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Henry Irving: English stage actor of the Victorian era (1838–1905).
Born in Keinton Mandeville (died at age 67).
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Sir Henry Irving, né John Henry Brodribb, was an English actor-manager in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He established himself at the West End theatre the Lyceum. His long campaign to have theatre recognised as an art of equal importance with music and painting culminated when he was knighted in 1895, the first actor to be thus honoured.
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