The Beerbohm family are the descendants of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1811–1892), the son of Ernest Henery Beerbohm (2 May 1763 - 5 November 1855) and Henrietta Radke (1767–1855), and of Dutch

Netherlands

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, Lithuania

Lithuania

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n and German

Germany

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 origin, who hailed from Memel (now renamed Klaipėda

Klaipeda

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 and the chief port of Lithuania) on the Baltic

Baltic Sea

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 coast. He came to England

England

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 in about 1830 and set up as a corn merchant. He firstly married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper, and the couple had four children. On her death he married Eliza Draper (d. 1918), the sister of Julius's late first wife, and had another five children. As a deceased wife's sister

Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907

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, Eliza Draper's marriage to Julius Beerbohm was celebrated outside the United Kingdom.

Descendants of Julius and Constantia Beerbohm

1 Ernest Beerbohm (1850 - ?) who went to South Africa

South Africa

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 as a sheep farmer in Cape Colony

Cape Colony

The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...

 and married a native South African

2 Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager.Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre, winning praise for adventurous programming and lavish productions, and starring in many of its productions. In 1899, he helped fund the...

 married actress Helen Maud Holt (1863-1937) in 1882. Their children were:

• Viola Tree
  Viola Tree
  Viola Tree was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majesty's Theatre...
  
   (1884-1938) married drama critic, Alan Leonard Romaine Parsons (1889 - 1933) Their children were:

• David Tree
  David Tree
  David Tree was an English stage and screen actor from a distinguished theatrical family whose career in the 1930s included roles in numerous stage presentations as well as in thirteen films produced between 1937 and 1941, among which were 1939's Goodbye Mr...
  
  
• Denys Parsons
• Virginia Penelope Parsons (9 April 1917 - 18 September 2003), wife successively of David Pax Tennant (a son of the 1st Baron Glenconner) and of Henry Frederick Thynne (6th Marquess of Bath).

• Felicity Tree
  Felicity Tree
  Lady Felicity Cory-Wright was an English baronetess, the daughter of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his wife, the actress Helen Maud Holt...
  
   (1895-1978) married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, 3rd Baronet
  Cory-Wright Baronets
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  . They had five sons:

• Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (29 August 1916 - 26 June 1944)
• Michael Cory-Wright (5 March 1920 - 3 January 1997)
• David Arthur Cory-Wright (19 March 1925 - 10 January 2009)
• Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright (19 March 1925 - 9 April 1945)
• Mark Richard Geoffrey Cory-Wright (21 March 1930 - 4 August 2004)

• Iris Tree
  Iris Tree
  Iris Tree was an English poet, actress and artists' model, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress....
  
   (1897-1968) married firstly Curtis Moffat
  Curtis Moffat
  Curtis Moffat was an abstract photographer, color still life and society portraitist. At times he collaborated with Man Ray.-Biography:...
  
  .

• Ivan Moffat
  Ivan Moffat
  Ivan Moffat was a British screenwriter and associate producer who, with Fred Guiol, was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the film Giant....
  
   screenwriter
  Screenwriter
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  . He married firstly Natasha Sorokin - marriage dissolved.

• Lorna Moffat

• He married secondly The Hon Katharine Smith, the daughter of the 3rd Viscount Hambleden

• Jonathan Moffat (born 1964)

• Georgina Moffat
  Georgina Moffat
  Georgina Moffat is an Australian / English singer-songwriter, actress and model. Georgina currently uses an alias for her music career. She is the great granddaughter of poet, actress and muse Iris Tree, the granddaughter of Ivan Moffat, and the great great granddaughter of RADA founder Sir...
  
   - (born 1989) actress

• Patrick Moffat (born 1968)

• Ivan Moffat had an affair with author Lady Caroline Blackwood

• Ivana Lowell (born 1966)

Iris Tree's second marriage was to the actor and ex-officer of the Austria

Austria

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n cavalry, Friedrich von Ledebur-Wicheln.

• Herbert Beerbohm Tree also had seven illegitimate children from his numerous affairs, among them the director Carol Reed
  Carol Reed
  Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man and Oliver!...
  
   and Peter Reed, whose son became the actor Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles...
  
  . Another was the actress Lydia Bilbrook
  Lydia Bilbrook
  Lydia Bilbrook was an English actress whose stage and film career spanned four decades. It is claimed that she was an illegitimate daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree...
  
  .

3 Julius Beerbohm

Julius Beerbohm

Julius Beerbohm was a Victorian travel-writer, engineer and explorer.He was the son of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm , of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant. He married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper, and the...

 engineer and explorer - married Mrs Evelyn Younghusband.

• Marie Marguerite Beerbohm (born 1890) - married Ernest Alexander Stuart Watt (1874 - 1954) on 22 February 1912 at the register office, Hanover Square - marriage dissolved 1913

4 Constance Beerbohm

Constance Beerbohm

Constance Beerbohm was the oldest daughter of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm , of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant. He married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper, and the couple had four children...

 - author and house keeper for Eliza, her father's second wife.

Descendants of Julius and Eliza Beerbohm

1 Agnes Mary Beerbohm (1865-1949), who married Ralph Neville in 1884, was a friend of the artist Walter Sickert

Walter Sickert

Walter Richard Sickert , born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century....

, modelling for him in his 1906 painting Fancy Dress.

She married, secondly, Edmund Francis Vesey Knox (1865 - 1921)

2 Dora Beerbohm (1868- 13 August 1940) In 1894 became a Sister

Nun

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 in the Anglican Order

Anglican Communion

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 of Sisters of Mercy at St Saviour's Priory in Ilford

Ilford

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. Died shortly after a fall down some steps at the Priory.

3 Marie Beerbohm - died young

4 Daughter - died young

5 Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.-Early life:...

, caricaturist

Caricature

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 and parodist

Parody

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, who married:

Florence Kahn

Florence Kahn (actress)

Florence Kahn was a Jewish American actress and the first wife of caricaturist and parodist Sir Max Beerbohm.-Acting career:...

 in 1910 - no issue

Elisabeth Jungmann

Elisabeth Jungmann

Elisabeth Jungmann was an interpreter and the secretary, literary executor and second wife of caricaturist and parodist Sir Max Beerbohm....

in 1956 - no issue