The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Herbert Beerbohm TREE

  • Born: 1853
  • Died: 1917
  • Grave/memorial: G Bay

Actor-manager, Haymarket Theatre (1887-1897). Built Her Majesty’s theatre, founded RADA (1904), knighted (1909). He lodged in Haverstock Hill in the 1880s and lived grandly at The Grange, Branch Hill 1890-91. One of his 3 daughters, the actress Violet Parsons, who died in 1938 is buried next to him in F 002. The film director Carol Reed was his natural son.

Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986
Additional research by the 2012 project team