Cyril Maude

Maude was born in London and educated at Wixenford and Charterhouse School. In 1881, he was sent to Adelaide, South Australia, on the clipper ship City of Adelaide to regain his health.{{cite web|url=http://hat-archive.blogspot.com/2010/10/cyril-maude.html|title=Cyril Maude |publisher=History of Australian Theatre |date=28 October 2010 |access-date=4 June 2011 }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15744976 |title=THE CYRIL MAUDE SEASON. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=4 August 1917 |access-date=4 June 2011 |page=16 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He returned to Britain without having regained his health, but nursing the ambition to be an actor.

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He studied acting under Charles Cartwright and Roma Le Thiere,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qyk_AQAAMAAJ/page/n599|title=Who's Who in Theatre 1912 - 1922|last=Parker|first=John|publisher=Pitman|year=1922|pages=555}} but was forced to leave the country again for health reasons. He travelled to Canada and America, fulfilling his acting ambition with Daniel Bandman's company in Denver, Colorado in 1884.

Between 1896 until 1905 he was co-manager of the Haymarket Theatre in London with Frederick Harrison. There he became known for his quietly humorous acting in many parts. However in 1900 he managed the production of the Little Minister at the Regent Theatre in Salford.{{Cite news |date=30 January 1900 |title=The Salford Theatre |pages=7 |work=The Manchester Guardian}}

In 1906 he went into management on his own account, and in 1907 he opened the Playhouse, also in London.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Between 1911 and 1919 he acted largely in the United States where he played new comedies. He returned to London in 1919 and established himself at the Criterion Theatre.{{sfn|Chisholm|1922}}

Maude became very well known for his role in Grumpy as a spoilt old man, who as a retired lawyer solved a crime to keep his loved ones happy. Maude took this play to Australia and toured Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney where it was immensely popular. In 1923 he toured America with Lydia Bilbrook and Mabel Terry-Lewis in If Winter Comes, playing at Chicago in April and New York in the autumn."Dramatis Personae", The Observer, 25 February 1923, p. 11

He starred in several films in the 1930s, including Grumpy. In 1947, he appeared at the age of 85 in the film While the Sun Shines.

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Maude was the eldest son of Captain Charles Henry Maude, a captain in the Indian Army, and the Honorable Georgina Hanbury-Tracy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p6820.htm#i68199|title=The Peerage, Hon. Georgina Henrietta Emma Hanbury-Tracy|date=19 April 2019|access-date=19 April 2019}} His maternal grandfather was Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley.

In 1888, Maude married actress Winifred Emery, the daughter of Samuel Anderson Emery and granddaughter of John Emery, both well-known actors in their day.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Their children included Margery Maude, who became an actress; Pamela Cynthia Maude (1893–1975); and John Cyril Maude, who became a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament.[http://thepeerage.com/p5788.htm The family of Winifred Emery] on thepeerage.com, accessed 8 June 2011 Pamela Maude married Major William La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC on 1 June 1916. He was killed in action on 20 July 1916 during World War I, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.[http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/genealogyjunction/Eton/Eton%20Roll%20of%20Honour%20Latin%20text.html Eton College – Rolls of Honour], accessed 8 June 2011 On 22 December 1919 she married the Hon. William Fraser, DSO, MC (1890–1964), who later became a Brigadier.[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index340.htm Lord Saltoun of Abernethy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310112208/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index340.htm |date=10 March 2012 }} on cracroftpeerage.co.uk, accessed 8 June 2011

They also brought up a niece, Winifred Isabel Emery (1890–1972),[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/76473?docPos=1 Gascoyne, David], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 2 June 2011Dark, Sidney and Rowland Grey. W. S. Gilbert: His Life and Letters, Methuen & Co Ltd, London (1923), pp. 222–223 after the girl was abandoned by Emery's brother in 1895. This niece, together with her pupil Ruby Preece, was present when dramatist W. S. Gilbert died in his lake at Grim's Dyke in May 1911.Goodman, Andrew. Grim's Dyke: A Short History of the House and Its Owners, Glittering Prizes {{ISBN|978-1-85811-550-4}}, pp. 17–18 Winifred Isabel Emery was the mother of poet David Gascoyne.

In 1905, Maude succeeded Sir Henry Irving as the President of the Actors' Orphanage Fund. During his tenure, he established the first orphanage for actors' children at Croydon, inaugurated innovative fundraising schemes and events, attracted royal patronage, and secured committee members from among leading actors of the day. He served until 1914. {{Cite web|title=Important people in our history – ACT – The Actors' Children's Trust|url=https://actorschildren.org/our-history/important-people-history/|access-date=2020-10-24|website=actorschildren.org}}

Maude died at Torquay, Devon on 20 February 1951.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectorspost.com/maude.htm|title=Cyril Maude (1862-1951)|publisher=Collector's Post |date=21 February 2009 |access-date=4 June 2011 }}

• Beauty and the Barge (1914)
• Peer Gynt (1915)
• The Greater Will (1915)
• The Headmaster (1921)
• Grumpy (1930)
• These Charming People (1931)
• Counsel's Opinion (1933)
• Orders Is Orders (1934)
• Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
• Heat Wave (1935)
• While the Sun Shines (1947)

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