Kyrle Bellew

Kyrle Bellew
Born	Harold Kyrle Money Bellew 28 March 1855 Prescot, Lancashire, England
Died	2 November 1911 (aged 56) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Resting place	Saint Raymond's Cemetery, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Other names	Harold Dominick Harold Higgin Harold Kyrle
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1871–1911
Spouse(s)	Eugenie Le Grand (m. 1873; div. 1888)
Children	1
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Harold Kyrle Money Bellew (28 March 1855 – 2 November 1911), better known as Kyrle Bellew, was an English stage and silent film actor in the late 19th and early 20th century. He notably toured with Cora Brown-Potter in the 1880s and 1890s, and was cast as the leading man in many stage productions alongside her. He was also a signwriter, gold prospector and rancher mainly in Australia.

Bellew was born in Prescot, Lancashire, the son of Reverend John Chippendale. He was the second son and third-born of the four Bellew children. He had an older brother, Evelyn Montesquieu Gambier (born 25 October 1847) and an older sister, Eva Sibyl Bellew (born October 1848 in Worcester). His younger sister, Ida Percy Clare, was born 17 June 1852 in Calcutta, India. Evelyn Bellew emigrated to the United States in the late 1860s, married Anita Killen and died childless on 1 December 1900. Sibyl Bellew married civil engineer John Hooper Wait in March 1873 and lived in Bhownuggur, India until her husband's suicide on 27 June 1876. At the time of the 1891 Census, she was living as a nun in the Poor Clares convent on Cornwall St. in Kensington, and she died childless in 1927. Clare Bellew married Joseph Boulderson, of the 68th Regiment, in 1874 and had two children, Ida Sybil Mary and Shadwell Joseph Boulderson, before dying at age 49 in the first quarter of 1902.

His mother, Eva Maria Money (born 12 June 1824) was the youngest daughter of Vice-Admiral Rowland Money, C.B., R.N., and Mary Ann Tombs. She married her first husband Henry Edmund Michell Palmer, a soldier in the Indian Army, on 8 February 1843. However, Palmer died of "hill fever" in Madras, India on 9 November 1846. The young widow then married John Chippendale Montesquieu Bellew on 27 March 1847. John Bellew was born John Chippendale Higgin in Lancashire on 3 August 1823 to Robert and Anne Maria (née Bellew) Higgin. Bellew was an acquaintance of Eva's brother-in-law, the Reverend Samuel Gambier, who believed him to be a natural-son of his friend and actor, William Macready, whom Bellew did resemble and correspond with regularly until 1850. Bellew changed his name to his mother's maiden name in 1844 while still a student at St Mary Hall, and he was ordained an Anglican priest in 1848. Bellew was first appointed curate of St Andrew's in Worcester in 1848, and was transferred to Prescot, Lancashire, in 1850, where Kyrle Bellew was born.

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