A daughter of the actors Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Helen Maud Holt, she appeared regularly in news of the time starting from infancy. Born in Chelsea, London, in 1894, Tree was the middle daughter of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his wife, the actress Helen Maud Holt. In 1908, she was praised in The Bystander for her leading role in a play by Mistress
Walter Cave, The Three Wishes, opposite the daughter of the British Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith.
Her grandson is Richard Cory-Wright, 4th Baronet Cory-Wright. Tree was involved in the theatre and society at an early age. She was later pictured in The Sketch wearing her costume.
The paper reported that the performances benefited the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
At the Shakespeare Ball in London in 1911, The New York Times noted that she appeared with her family and dressed as Juliet from Romeo and Juliet. In 1912, The Evening News reported that Tree sold programmes at the Keats-Shelley Memorial matinees at the Haymarket Theatre.
She was presented at the court by Margot Asquith in 1913, and she wore a white satin gown with a rose pink train made of tulle and lace. The same year, she went in ancient Greek-style dress to the Picture Ball at Royal Albert Hall.
In 1914, she appeared in the musical Louisiana Damoiselle Elue, performed at the French embassy in London.
Tree married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, 3rd Baronet Cory-Wright, son of Sir Arthur Cory-Wright, 2nd Bt, and Elizabeth Olive Clothier, on 10 November 1915. Because of the celebrity of her father, the World War I wedding was filmed, showing the bride leaving with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree from the parental home and arriving at the church, and the bride and groom leaving the church. The couple had five sons: Anthony (1916–1944).
Michael Cory-Wright (1920–1997).
David (1925–2009); Jonathan (1925–1945) and Mark (1930–2004). Two of them, Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright and Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright, were killed in action during World World War World War II Anthony"s son, Richard, inherited the Baronetcy.
Through golf she met the future Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, whose first love she became. She died at her home in Brancaster, Norfolk, at the age of eighty-three.
A volume of correspondence by or to Felicity"s mother Maud, including by family members, was edited and published by Susana Cory-Wright (nee Prats), the wife of Felicity"s grandson, Anthony Jonathan Cory-Wright, titled Lady Tree: A Theatrical Life in Letters (2012).
