Dadie Rylands

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Dadie Rylands

CBE
Dadie Rylands with Raymond Mortimer and Frances Partridge
Born
George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands

23 October 1902
Tockington, United Kingdom
Died16 January 1999 (1999-01-17) (aged 96)
Cambridge, United Kingdom
EducationEton College
King's College, Cambridge

George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands

CBE
(23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director.

Rylands was born at the Down House, Tockington, Gloucestershire, to Thomas Kirkland Rylands, a land agent, and Bertha Nisbet Wolferstan (née Thomas).[1] His grandfather was the Liberal politician Peter Rylands.[2] Educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, he was a Fellow of King's from 1927 until his death. While at Cambridge, he became a friend of John Maynard Keynes, also a student and Fellow at King’s.[3] He also befriended Cecil Beaton there.

As well as studying

Shakespeare, he was actively involved in the theatre. He directed and acted in many productions for The Marlowe Society, and was chairman of the Cambridge Arts Theatre from 1946 to 1982.[4]

Rylands' 1939

one-man show of the same title. Though Rylands specialised in directing university productions at Cambridge, he also directed Gielgud in professional productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Hamlet in London in 1945.[5]

He was made a

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71832. Archived from the original on 6 February 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "Dadie Rylands". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. ^ "The Papers of George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands". National Archives. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b T.J.Cribb (20 January 1999). "Obituary: George Rylands". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. ^ "O for a muse of fire". Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2020.

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