Weedon Grossmith

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Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919) was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright. He was born in London and grew up in St. Pancras and Hampstead, London. He was educated at Massingham House on Haverstock Hill in Hampstead, and then at the North London Collegiate School in Camden Town and Simpson’s School, a local private establishment. Interested in art, he trained as a painter at the West London School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, and the Royal Academy of Arts. He turned to acting in 1885, which he pursued until 1917. In 1895, he married the actress May Lever Palfrey. He died in London at the age of sixty-five.