George Humphrey Wolferstan RylandsCHCBE (23 October 1902 – 16 January 1999), known as Dadie Rylands, was a British literary scholar and theatre director.
dadie, rylands, george, humphrey, wolferstan, rylands, october, 1902, january, 1999, known, british, literary, scholar, theatre, director, with, raymond, mortimer, frances, partridgeborngeorge, humphrey, wolferstan, rylands23, october, 1902tockington, united, . George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands CH CBE 23 October 1902 16 January 1999 known as Dadie Rylands was a British literary scholar and theatre director Dadie RylandsCH CBEDadie Rylands with Raymond Mortimer and Frances PartridgeBornGeorge Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands23 October 1902Tockington United KingdomDied16 January 1999 1999 01 17 aged 96 Cambridge United KingdomEducationEton College King s College CambridgeRylands was born at the Down House Tockington Gloucestershire to Thomas Kirkland Rylands a land agent and Bertha Nisbet Wolferstan nee Thomas 1 His grandfather was the Liberal politician Peter Rylands 2 Educated at Eton College and King s College Cambridge he was a Fellow of King s from 1927 until his death While at Cambridge he became a friend of John Maynard Keynes also a student and Fellow at King s 3 He also befriended Cecil Beaton there As well as studying Shakespeare he was actively involved in the theatre He directed and acted in many productions for The Marlowe Society and was chairman of the Cambridge Arts Theatre from 1946 to 1982 4 Rylands 1939 Shakespeare anthology Ages of Man was the basis of John Gielgud s one man show of the same title Though Rylands specialised in directing university productions at Cambridge he also directed Gielgud in professional productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Hamlet in London in 1945 5 He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in 1961 and a Companion of Honour CH in 1987 4 References Edit The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 doi 10 1093 ref odnb 71832 Archived from the original on 6 February 2018 Retrieved 5 July 2020 Dadie Rylands National Portrait Gallery Retrieved 5 July 2020 The Papers of George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands National Archives Retrieved 5 July 2020 a b T J Cribb 20 January 1999 Obituary George Rylands The Independent Archived from the original on 22 July 2015 Retrieved 16 July 2015 O for a muse of fire Guardian Archived from the original on 8 May 2014 Retrieved 5 July 2020 External links EditGeorge Rylands at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography nbsp This English biographical article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dadie Rylands amp oldid 1152139078, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
