Irving family

Sir Henry Irving

The Irving Family are the descendants of Samuel Brodribb, (born c.1800 at Clutton - died in Bristol 20 June 1876), a salesman who collected orders for the tailoring department of a local store, and his wife Mary, née Behenna, (christened 31 January 1808 at Lelant, Cornwall - died 1869), the daughter of a Cornish farming family.^[1]

Their son was:

Sir Henry Irving (1838 – 1905), born John Henry Brodribb,^[1] a notable English stage actor in the Victorian era. He married Florence O'Callaghan on 15 July 1869 at St.Marylebone, London.

Henry Irving was the father of:

• Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving (1871-1914), an English actor, dramatist and novelist.^[2]

• Harry Brodribb Irving (1870-1919),^[2] an actor, who married the actress Dorothea Baird.^[3] Their children were:

• Laurence Irving OBE (1897-1988), a Hollywood set designer and art director. He married Rosalind Woolner, the grand-daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor, Thomas Woolner. Their children are:

• Pamela Mary Irving (born March 22, 1921).
• John H. B. Irving (born 1924)

• John H. B. Irving grand-daughter Imogen Irving (b. 15th January 1994) Actor, currently in training.

• Elizabeth Irving OBE (1904- 2003), an actress, the Chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (W.I.) and the founder in 1955 of the Keep Britain Tidy Group. She married Sir Felix John Morgan Brunner, 3rd Bt.^[4] Their sons are:

• Sir John Henry Kilian Brunner, 4th Bt. (b. 1 June 1927)
• Nicholas Laurence Brodribb Brunner1 (1 January 1929 - 3 March 1931)
• Timothy Barnabas Hans Brunner (b. 28 February 1932)
• Daniel Felix Brodribb Brunner (30 July 1933 - 28 November 1976)
• Sir Hugo Lawrence Joseph Brunner KCVO (b. 17 August 1935)

See also

• List of show business families

References