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Cecil Raleigh | |
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| Born | Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands (1856-01-27)27 January 1856 Monmouthshire. England |
| Died | 10 November 1914(1914-11-10) (aged 58) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, playwright |
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Cecil Raleigh was the pseudonym ofAbraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands (27 January 1856 – 10 November 1914), an Englishactor andplaywright.
Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands was born on 27 January 1856 inMonmouthshire, the son of Cecilia Anne Daniel Riley (1813–1911) and her second husband Dr. John Fothergill Rowlands (1823–1878).[1] He took the stage name of Cecil Raleigh. On 19 December 1882, he married Effie Adelaide Henderson (1859 – 16 October 1936), a British novelist who published asEffie Adelaide Rowlands and laterE. Maria Albanesi, whom he later divorced. On 31 March 1894, he remarried Isabel Pauline Ellissen (8 August 1862 – 22 August 1923), an actress under the stage nameSaba Raleigh.
Cecil Raleigh died in London on 10 November 1914.[1]
He played for a time inmusical theatre, but deserted acting for playwriting and, either alone or in collaboration, producedmelodramas, other plays and musical pieces, staged at first chiefly at theComedy Theatre, London, and in later years atDrury Lane.
Cheer, Boys, Cheer (1895);Hearts are Trumps (1899);The Best of Friends (1902); andThe Whip (1909–10) are typical examples of his plays, but he was particularly successful with his musical pieces,Little Christopher Columbus (1893),Dick Whittington and His Cat (1894),The Yashmak (1897) andThe Sunshine Girl (1912).
Several of his plays were later made into motion pictures. He acted as dramatic critic in two or three London papers, and became secretary to the School of Dramatic Art in Gower Street, London.[2]
