- British Poet, Author, Playwright, Actor and Theatre Manager.
- Was a founding member of the Pilgrim Players.
- Was the first manager of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
- Became popular on the American lecture circuit after the success of "Abraham Lincoln".
- His cousin, George Carr Drinkwater, (a noted architect and portrait painter) died in 1941 from injuries suffered during a German air raid.
- His second wife, Australian Daisy Kennedy, was a famous concert violinist. Two weeks before her husband's death she was seriously injured in an automobile accident.
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