46 Facts About Beatrice Irwin

Beatrice Irwin went on through a series of careers starting with being an actor in stage theatre which took her to Cape Colony, as it was known then, touring America, briefly in the then young country of Australia, and performed in Shanghai.

About then Alice Beatrice met Ellen Terry who recommended she consider the theatre after finishing her schooling.

Beatrice Irwin had definitely entered theatre productions in England and then went to what was then called Cape Colony, a decade or so before becoming the Union of South Africa, under the productions of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in some comedies and visible there as early as April, 1898, on into November with a good review in August in the play "The Importance of Being Earnest".

Beatrice Irwin was returned to London by June 1899 in a theatre production.

Many of the Simpson family including Beatrice gathered for the winter of 1901 in London, The play was then staged in New York but Irwin did not perform.

Early coverage of the betrothal noted Beatrice Irwin was her stage name and her father was the former Rev William Simpson of Scotland.

Beatrice Irwin made it into Canada and again Irwin was pictured in the newspaper.

Where Beatrice Irwin was from spring 1904 to spring 1906 is as yet unstated.

In later April 1906 Beatrice Irwin was briefly mentioned seeking information on an Irvine family history from a home in eastern London.

News comes that July 1907 of Beatrice Irwin joining a theatre troupe to perform in the young nation of Australia in the play "Brewster's Millions", and the first performance does take place in mid-September in Sydney.

Beatrice Irwin went on to Melbourne having given some interviews and giving more.

Beatrice Irwin said she preferred plays that were more 'costume and character' though she longed to sing in a Gilbert and Sullivan style comedy, and that she loathed pantomime.

Beatrice Irwin had kin in Sydney, and her picture was published.

In March, 1910, Beatrice Irwin makes her first known appearance publishing a poem in America:.

Beatrice Irwin was again interviewed, this time noting her education and recalled meeting Terry.

Beatrice Irwin revealed he has reviewed Irwin's forthcoming book of poetry.

In January 1911 Beatrice Irwin was visible still touring with the play troupe in America.

Beatrice Irwin's reply was guarded, but on the whole he was not in favour of mystic experiments, as he pointed out that, in order to be valuable, such experiments must be profound, and that the practical conditions of life in the West did not usually afford the time and patience necessary to such researches.

In January, 1912, Beatrice Irwin published her book of poetry as Pagan Trinity and it was advertised in Britain.

Beatrice Irwin then worked with Inayat Khan - a Sufi leader.

In February a poem "L'Eternelle Idole" of Beatrice Irwin's was published in a French newspaper in early 1912:.

Beatrice Irwin is known to have visited with him in London in late January, 1913.

Beatrice Irwin then went on to do a review of the teachings and literature of the religion as she understood them then.

In early 1914 Beatrice Irwin's brother was sent to West Africa, returned in 1915 and was a soldier fighting in Belgium and France but from May 1917 he a gunnery instructor and then in November he was sent to Italy.

Beatrice Irwin debuted her Colour Filter Illumination at the Color Symposium in New York on October 11,1917, Papers collected for the symposium were later published.

Beatrice Irwin's speaking out for the need of new symbols for new age was quoted at the time, and it has been mentioned many decades later.

Beatrice Irwin was a "special lecturer" with the Chalif Normal School of Dancing in New York, since May 1918 and on through December 1919.

Beatrice Irwin appeared photographed in the Ladies Home Journal in a staged piece entitled "the after-the-war woman in a new field".

Beatrice Irwin joined in a women's chapter of the American Association of Engineers meeting in New York at the Cosmos Club in the spring.

Beatrice Irwin was credited with an Associate degree of Arts of Oxford and a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society.

Beatrice Irwin made reference to giving exhibitions in Paris and would have been later 1922 and into 1923.

In November 1923 Beatrice Irwin again presented at the IES conference in New York, her approach on the effects of color were again cited in the newspapers, and again in The Occult Review in December.

On 12 November 1924 Beatrice Irwin spoke at the founding meeting of the British Electrical Association for Women held at 1 Upper Brook Street, the home of Lady Katharine Parsons, and organised by Caroline Haslett.

Attendees were leading figures in the world of engineering and women's organisations, and Beatrice Irwin is quoted as giving "a delightful picture of the American Labour-saving home" as part of the discussion.

Meanwhile Beatrice Irwin exhibited at the Long Beach Pacific Southwest Exposition at which she won a gold medal, had a poem published in a local Long Beach newspaper, and was adding profession consultations in city planning and other performances in California.

In 1933 some of her work was noted as a co-exhibitor in the "House of Tomorrow", in 1933 for color filter illumination in the master bedroom, and a brief article on the color green was published in a Sufi periodical, and for the November issue of the American Theosophist Beatrice Irwin wrote a poem piece in honor of Annie Besant who had died in September.

Beatrice Irwin was noted returning to America from the UK in August detailing herself as a writer, of Irish background, born in India, and that her passport had been issued in DC in June 1934.

In later 1936 Beatrice Irwin joined in these plans of promulgating the religion first by giving talks on the religion in Southern California and then going on into Mexico.

Beatrice Irwin initially teamed up with Marion Holley, and then left for Mexico near February, 1937, where she was noted by May in Mexico City, and spent some six months.

Beatrice Irwin extended talking of Mexico starting in January 1938 into April in San Francisco.

Beatrice Irwin remained in the area giving talks as well as writing articles, amidst which she published a booklet Heralds of Peace.

In October 1940 Beatrice Irwin was in Albuquerque with a model of the Temple giving a talk, and was visible in several California cities.

Beatrice Irwin managed to visit an Inter-American conference at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in January, 1941, but largely was in the Phoenix area through December.

Beatrice Irwin was in Brooklyn in January 1942 where she gave a couple talks, before going to DC reviewing some of her trips with slides.

Beatrice Irwin took part in the effort for the recognitions of the religion with the UN in 1945.

Beatrice Irwin's New Science of Colour was a significant influence at the exhibition, and de Maistre took notes directly based on it as well.