1. Harold Kyrle Money Bellew was an English stage and silent film actor.
28 Facts About Kyrle Bellew
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Kyrle Bellew notably toured with Cora Brown-Potter in the 1880s and 1890s, and was cast as the leading man in many stage productions alongside her.
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Kyrle Bellew was a signwriter, gold prospector and rancher mainly in Australia.
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Kyrle Bellew's mother was a widow at the time of his parents' marriage on 27 March 1847.
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Kyrle Bellew married her first husband Henry Edmund Michell Palmer, a soldier in the Indian Army, on 8 February 1843.
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Kyrle Bellew's father was born John Chippendall Higgin in Lancashire on 3 August 1823 to Robert Higgin and Anne Maria Higgin.
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Kyrle Bellew's lineage was called into question by the Reverend Samuel Gambier, who believed him to be a natural son of his friend and actor, William Macready, whom John Bellew did resemble and correspond with regularly until 1850.
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Kyrle Bellew was first appointed curate of St Andrew's in Worcester in 1848, and was transferred to Prescot, Lancashire, in 1850.
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On 17 November 1851, the Kyrle Bellew family travelled to India on board the Hotspur and moved into a large house on Harrington Street in Calcutta.
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John Kyrle Bellew had been appointed as an assistant chaplain to St John's Cathedral in Calcutta, India.
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Kyrle's parents separated in November 1853, after John Bellew discovered licentious correspondence between Eva and 23-year-old Ashley Eden, a civil servant with the East India Company.
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John Kyrle Bellew sued for divorce from Eva on 6 March 1855 on grounds of adultery.
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John Kyrle Bellew named Eden as his wife's lover and was granted a divorce on unequivocal grounds.
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On 13 August 1861, Kyrle Bellew's mother married for a third time, to Ashley Eden and she lived in India until her death on 10 January 1877.
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Meanwhile, John Kyrle Bellew received custody of the children and left India in 1855.
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Kyrle Bellew married civil engineer John Hooper Wait in March 1873 and lived in Bhownuggur, India until her husband's suicide on 27 June 1876.
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Kyrle Bellew married Joseph Boulderson, of the 68th Regiment, in 1874 and had two children, Ida Sybil Mary and Shadwell Joseph Boulderson, before dying in the first quarter of 1902.
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However his home life was not happy because Kyrle Bellew did not get along with his new stepmother or stepsister, Maud Wilkinson.
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Kyrle Bellew described this tumultuous time in his life in his posthumous work Short Stories.
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In 1888 Kyrle Bellew began giving acting lessons to Mrs Leslie Carter, a married socialite.
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In 1889, Kyrle Bellew was named as a co-respondent in the highly publicised divorce case of Mrs Leslie Carter.
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Kyrle Bellew's preparing of Dudley for the stage required ample amounts of time with her and away from her husband.
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Kyrle Bellew found time to venture into primitive motion pictures, which at the time were considered well beneath an actor of his stature; in 1905 he featured in Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom.
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Kyrle Bellew died of pneumonia on 2 November 1911, in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he had been appearing in a play called The Mollusc.
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Kyrle Bellew first appeared in the French vaudeville productions, Les Faux Bonshommes and Un Menage en Ville, and then moved on to Shakespearean theatre at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London before relocating to Australia.
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Kyrle Bellew gave birth during the voyage on 15 January 1873 and arrived in Hobson's Bay on 20 February with an infant.
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Kyrle Bellew married Le Grande on 27 October 1873 at St Patrick's Cathedral under the name Harold Dominick Kyrle Bellew.
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Kyrle Bellew secretly wed Bellew but returned to Fairclough when he discovered them on their honeymoon.