William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a British novelist. He was a son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.-Life:...

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Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917.

He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre

Royalty Theatre, Glasgow

The Royalty Theatre, Glasgow was a theatre in Glasgow at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Renfield Street. It was built in 1879 as part of a development by the Central Halls Company chaired by David Rattray , and was one of the first theatre designs of Frank Matcham...

, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company; and, with George Paston

George Paston

Emily Morse Symonds , known as an author by her pen name George Paston, was a British author and literary critic.-Biography and family:...

 (i. e., Emily Morse Symonds), a farce, The Naked Truth, which was first played at Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by the actor/manager Charles Wyndham . Located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, it was designed by W.G.R. Sprague about 1898, the architect of six other London theatres between then and 1916...

, London, in April, 1910, and in which Charles Hawtrey played Bernard Darrell. New International Encyclopedia

New International Encyclopedia

The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.-History:...

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