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R. CHARLES HENRY HAWTREY, author, actor, and manager, is the fifth son of the Rev. J. W. Hawtrey, and was born at Eton, where his father was an assistant master, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. At the age of twenty-three he went on the stage in "The Colonel," and three years later wrote the phenomenally-successful play, "The Private Secretary," which was performed no fewer than 844 times consecutively, and which has lately been revived with fresh success. Since that time Mr. Hawtrey has produced several plays, of which the most successful, "Jane," had a very long run.