as Laertes and Lily Brayton as Ophelia. After his father's death, he established his own company, that included his wife, and toured most provincial cities, playing mainly repeats of Sir Henry Irving's best remembered performances. For the opening night of the new King's Theatre in Southsea he presented Charles I, The Bells and The Lyons Mail. Occasionally, other plays were presented including, most successfully, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Queen's Theatre, London. Film historian Troy Howarth writes "Some sources credit (Irving), who played Jekyll and Hyde on stage, as the director of The Duality of Man (a 1910 British film adaptation of the Jekyll and Hyde story)....". In 1911, Irving, Baird and their London Company toured Australia, again presenting Hamlet. Two years later, Baird retired from the stage, while Irving kept on performing. In 1913 he visited South Africa, and a photograph records his dinner with the Owl Club in Cape Town. In 1914, he appeared with Basil Rathbone in The Sin of David at the Savoy Theatre. Later life During World War I, Irving withdrew from the theatre and returned to the law, writing the study for which he is now most famous, A Book of Remarkable Criminals, originally published in 1918, which examined the lives, motivations and crimes of some infamous murderers. He had already published Life of Judge Jeffreys, and Studies of French Criminals and other papers on the subject. After spending twenty years of his life dedicated to the theatre, his greatest success came from being what it was intended he should be, a legal expert. Irving was a founding member of Arthur Conan Doyle's Our Society, along with Arthur Diósy, the author J. B. Atlay, the coroner Ingleby Oddie, and others. Originally named "Crimes Club", it continues to flourish in London, where criminals and criminology are discussed at regularly held dinners. He died on 17 October 1919, at his residence in Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, following a long illness. Selected filmography The Duality of Man (1910, director) The Lyons Mail (1916) See also Irving Family Further reading Holdroyd, Michael, A Strange Eventful History – The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2008. References External links 1870 births 1919 deaths English male stage actors English people of Cornish descent Actor-managers People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of New College, Oxford 20th-century theatre managers