Background
Arthur Bourchier was bornin Speen, Berkshire, United Kingdom in 1864; the son of Fanny (née Farr) and Captain Charles John Bourchier.
Arthur Bourchier was bornin Speen, Berkshire, United Kingdom in 1864; the son of Fanny (née Farr) and Captain Charles John Bourchier.
Arthur was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. At the university he became prominent as an amateur actor in connexion with the O. U. A. D. C. (Oxford University Dramatic Society).
In 1889 he joined Mrs Langtry as a professional. He also acted with Charles Wyndham at the Criterion, and was for a while in Daly's company in America. He and his wife subsequently took the leading parts under his management of the Garrick theatre. Both as tragedian and comedian Mr Bourchier took high rank on the London stage, and his career as actor-manager was remarkable for the production of a number of successful modern plays, by Mr Sutro and others.
He founded Oxford University Dramatic Society while still a student. He was presented with a bronze bust of himself commissioned by old members of the O. U. D. S in recognition of his work in founding and later subsidising the society.
In his later years Bourchier became active in British politics as a member of the Labour Party.
He was a member of Oxford University Dramatic Society.
In 1894 he married the actress Violet Vanbrugh, elder sister of the no less well-known actress Irene Vanbrugh. They divorced in 1918. Bourchier remarried an actress, Violet Marion Kyrle Bellew in 1918.
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