Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 – May 20, 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist.
Born in London, England at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was the last of several children of a Lithuanian-born grain merchant, Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1810–1892). His mother was Eliza Draper Beerbohm (d. 1918), the sister of Julius's late first wife. It was a well-to-do London family, and Beerbohm grew up...
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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 – May 20, 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist.
Born in London, England at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was the last of several children of a Lithuanian-born grain merchant, Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1810–1892). His mother was Eliza Draper Beerbohm (d. 1918), the sister of Julius's late first wife. It was a well-to-do London family, and Beerbohm grew up with the four sisters from his father's second marriage. One of these sisters was Agnes Mary Beerbohm (1865-1949), who became Mrs Ralph Neville in 1884; she was a friend of the artist Walter Sickert and modelled for him in his 1906 painting Fancy Dress. He was also close to four half-siblings, one of whom, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, was already a renowned stage actor when Max Beerbohm was a child. Another older half-brother was the author and explorer Julius Beerbohm.
From 1881 to 1885 Max — he was always called simply 'Max' and it is thus that...
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