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The Oppidan Houses are named Godolphin House, Jourdelay's, ( both built as such c. 1720 ), Hawtrey House, Durnford House, ( the first two built as such by the Provost and Fellows, 1845, when the school was increasing in numbers and needed more centralised control ), The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans ', Keate House, Warre House, Villiers House, Common Lane House, Penn House, Walpole House, Cotton Hall, Wotton House, Holland House, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor House, Farrer House, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury.
The third version of The Plank was made in 1979 for Thames TV as a half-hour TV special, with a cast including Eric, Arthur Lowe ( taking Tommy Cooper's role ), Charlie Drake, Charles Hawtrey and Wilfrid Hyde-White.
* Charles Hawtrey ( 1914 – 1988 ), Carry On film legend, was born in Hounslow
Days Bay was originally called Hawtrey Bay.
Grossmith's last stage appearance was in 1918, in his old role of Lord Arthur Pomeroy in A Pantomime Rehearsal, with an all-star cast including Charles Hawtrey, Fay Compton, Irene Castle and Rutland Barrington, at a charity matinée attended by King George V, Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra.
The house passed through generations of the De Scaccario family ( spelt in many different forms ) until it seems to have passed into the D ' Awtrey family, whose name was eventually anglicised to Hawtrey.
It was this same William Hawtrey who, immediately after completing the house, guarded a royal prisoner at Chequers — Lady Mary Grey, younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and great granddaughter of King Henry VII.
Leno was a replacement in the role of Leontes in the 1888 musical burlesque of the ancient Greek character Atalanta at the Strand Theatre, directed by Charles Hawtrey.
It was written by Hawtrey's brother, George P. Hawtrey, and it starred Frank Wyatt, Willie Warde and William Hawtrey.
When Rupert became chairman of the Savoy in 1903, Ada was given a position at the hotel's American Bar, where she eventually became the head bartender and made cocktails for the likes of Mark Twain, the Prince of Wales, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, and Sir Charles Hawtrey.
Charles Hawtrey was the man for whom " Coley ", as Ada Coleman was affectionately called, created the Hanky-Panky cocktail.
" The late Charles Hawtrey ... was one of the best judges of cocktails that I knew.
George Procter Hawtrey ( 1847 – 1910 ) was a British actor, playwright and pageantmaster.
His father was Reverend John William Hawtrey, headmaster of the Alden House School at Slough.
Hawtrey ’ s most notable achievement in connection with the stage was his adaptation of Baron von Moser ’ s farce Mit Vergnügen ( The Pickpocket ), in which his brother Charles acted.
George Frederick Joffre Hartree ( 30 November 1914 – 27 October 1988 ), known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English comedy actor and musician.
Born in Hounslow, Middlesex, England in 1914, to William John Hartree and his wife Alice Hartree née Crow as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his stage name from the theatrical knight, Sir Charles Hawtrey, and encouraged the suggestion that he was his son.
Hawtrey made an early start to a career that was to span a period of almost 60 years, and broke through in all the major entertainment media of the time.
The last straw occurred in 1972 when, in a bid to finally gain higher billing, Hawtrey withdrew from a Carry On Christmas television programme in which he was scheduled to appear, giving just a few days ' notice for his absence and despite appearing in promotional material.
By 1937, Hawtrey was playing in Bats in the Belfry, a farce written by Diana Morgan and Robert MacDermott, and which opened at the Ambassadors Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 11 March.
Charles Hawtrey was an accomplished musician ( and had been a semi-professional pianist for the armed forces during World War II ), and recorded several records as a boy soprano.
By the 1940s, Hawtrey was appearing on radio during Children's Hour in the Norman and Henry Bones, the Boy Detectives series alongside the actress Patricia Hayes ( first broadcast in 1943 ).
The first to leave were Hawtrey, Bresslaw and Hartnell ; Hartnell's replacement was Bill Fraser, as Sgt-Major Claude Snudge, who, after The Army Game ended, starred with Alfie Bass in the spin-off series ' Bootsie and Snudge '.

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There, St. Michael's schoolmaster Dr. Muffin ( referred to by his pupils as Old Crumpet ) barely kept a kind of order from his desk, perched slightly higher from his unruly pupils, Charles Hawtrey who played the cheeky Smart ( later to go on to the Carry On films ), John Clark, a child actor who played the annoying swot D ' arcy Minor ( later to gain fame as Just William ), and an air force recruit, Billy Nichols, who on his days off played the really dumb schoolboy, Beckett.
Without these films, Hawtrey slipped into the relative obscurity of pantomime and provincial summer seasons, where he played heavily on his Carry On persona.
During the 1970s and ' 80s Hawtrey played parts in a series of radio plays, with Peter Jones, Lockwood West and Bernard Bresslaw, for the BBC written by Wally K. Daly:
In Our House ( 1960 ) Hawtrey played the character of council official Simon Willow.
Charles Hawtrey ( of ' Carry On ' fame ) played the porter.
He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company ; and, with George Paston ( i. e., Emily Morse Symonds ), a farce, The Naked Truth, which was first played at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in April, 1910, and in which Charles Hawtrey played Bernard Darrell.

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In 1908, Hawtrey became master of the Gloucestershire Historical Pageant at Cheltenham, followed by the National Pageant of Wales at Cardiff in October 1909 and the Chester Pageant in July 1910.
The programmes were written by Tony Hawes and Richard Waring, and Charles Hawtrey appeared alongside future Carry On co-star Hattie Jacques.
Hawtrey again acted alongside Hylda Baker, but this time playing the role simply of Charles, a clerk in an insurance office situated next door to a café run by Baker.
The series was hosted by the comedian Mike Reid, and Hawtrey featured in series 12 ( programme 7 ), the ' Horror Special '.
Recent updates on the actor were broadcast by the BBC's Radio 4 in " Charles Hawtrey: That Funny Fella with the Glasses ".
* The biography, Charles Hawtrey 1914-1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle, by Roger Lewis, was published in 2002.
* Another biography, Whatshisname: The Life and Death of Charles Hawtrey, by the broadcaster Wes Butters, was published in 2010.
* Hawtrey was mentioned by John Lennon in the 1970 Beatles film Let It Be, in which he ad-libs the non sequitur "' I Dig a Pygmy ', by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids!
* A cocktail called ' Hanky Panky ' ( made from Beefeater, Fernet Branca and red vermouth ) was created for Hawtrey by a bartender in the Savoy Hotel, London in the 1930s.
* Hawtrey features in " The Thin Man ," the title poem from the 1988 collection by Manchester poet and writer Robert Cochrane.
* Hawtrey was portrayed by Hugh Walters in the television film Cor, Blimey!
* In the pilot episode of the ( now abandoned ) Carryoons animated series ( 2001 ), the voice of Charles Hawtrey was provided by actor Clive Greenwood.
It was produced and directed in 1921 in the provinces and in 1922 by Sir Charles Hawtrey.

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