![]() ![]() He cuddled them, played with them, read to them, took them to the theatre with him, taught them the family history and talked endlessly to and with them in a private language studded with family code words. The dominating figure was her father, who took a huge interest and delight in his daughters. She started life in the nursery on the top floor of the Cumberland Terrace house. It was pelting with rain when the new arrival appeared, soon after 5pm. He married an actress, Muriel Beaumont, in 1903 and they had three daughters – Angela, Daphne and Jeanne – the second of whom was born in some grandeur and after a violent thunderstorm at 24 Cumberland Terrace in Regent’s Park. ![]() ![]() Gerald du Maurier later played both Raffles and Bulldog Drummond. Barrie, including Peter Pan, and his sister Sylvia was the mother of the Lewellyn Davies boys, the models for the play’s ‘lost boys’. Gerald turned out to be one of the most famous actors of his day. He often used his son, the future Sir Gerald du Maurier, as a model for drawings, sent him to Harrow and, with misgivings, helped him to begin a career on the stage. The first of the du Maurier dynasty to settle in England, in the 1860s, was George, who made his name as an artist for Punch and as the author of the novel Trilby, in which he created the character of Svengali. ![]()
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