Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956), knight, author and cartoonist, was born in London, son of Julius and Eliza Beerbohm. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, where he read classics. He began a career as a professional caricaturist when he was twenty, and was first published in the Strand magazine in 1892. His first public showing was at the Fine Art’s Society exhibition in 1896, in ‘A century and a half of English humorous art, from Hogarth to the present day’. He also worked with great success as a freelance writer and essayist, and contributed as drama critic to the Saturday Review between 1898-1910. He completed one novel, Zuleika Dobson, which was published in 1911. He married the American actress Florence Kahn in 1910, after which the couple settled in Italy. In the 1930s he also became interested in broadcasting, and made a series of programmes for the BBC. He was knighted in 1939, and married his second wife, Elisabeth Jungmann, in 1956.
From the guide to the Beerbohm Scrapbooks, 1904, 1907, (University of Exeter)
