Harry Arthur Saintsbury

Harry Arthur Saintsbury, usually called H. A. Saintsbury was an English actor and playwright. A leading man, he became well known for his stage interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, was an early mentor of Charlie Chaplin and is considered an authority on the work of Sir Henry Irving.

The son of Frederic Saintsbury, Esq., of the Bank of England, Saintsbury was born in Chelsea, London, onDecember 1869, into a middleclass family. His father had married Sarah Charlotte, second daughter of Robert Lemon, FSA, of Her Majestys State Paper Office, at St Lukes Church, Chelsea, onOctober 1854.

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