Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (18 March 1852 – 22 June 1896), was a British actor

Actor

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, impresario

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, and dramatist.
Harris was born in Paris

Paris

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, France

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, the son of Augustus Glossop Harris

Augustus Glossop Harris

Augustus Frederick Glossop Harris was a British actor and theatre manager.Born in Naples, Italy, in 1825 he was the son of Joseph Glossop, first manager of the Royal Coburg Theatre , and opera singer Mme Féron , a former prima donna assoluta at La Scala in Milan.His early career saw limited...

 (1825–1873), who was also a dramatist, and his wife, née Maria Ann Bone, a theatrical costumier. He spent his childhood in London

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, England

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, returning to Paris for schooling at age 12.
From 1879, Harris was manager of the Drury Lane Theatre

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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 in London, and was nicknamed the "Father of Modern Pantomime

Pantomime

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" and "Augustus Druriolanus".