British Poet, Author, Playwright, Actor and Theatre Manager.
Was a founding member of the Pilgrim Players.
Was the first manager of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Became popular on the American lecture circuit after the success of "Abraham Lincoln".
His cousin, George Carr Drinkwater, (a noted architect and portrait painter) died in 1941 from injuries suffered during a German air raid.
His second wife, Australian Daisy Kennedy, was a famous concert violinist. Two weeks before her husband's death she was seriously injured in an automobile accident.