Annie Horniman CH
(1860-1937)

woman, theatre director (1908-1921), and Companion of Honour (from 1933)

Died aged c. 77

Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. She encouraged the work of new writers and playwrights, including W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and members of what became known as the Manchester School of dramatists.

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The site of the Gaiety Theatre directed by Miss A.E.F. Horniman 1908-1921

Peter Street, Manchester, United Kingdom where they directed the Gaiety Theatre