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J.M. Barrie More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

9 May 1860, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, UK

Date of Death

19 June 1937, London, England, UK (pneumonia)

Birth Name

James Matthew Barrie

Spouse

Mary Ansell

(9 July 1894 - 1909) (divorced)

Trivia

Novelist and playright.

Created a baronet in 1913 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1922.

Awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of St Andrews (1898), Edinburgh (1909), Oxford (1926) and Cambridge (1930).

After the death of two of Barrie's close friends, Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies, he adopted their five sons: Peter, Jack, George, Michael and Nicholas. Barrie was very close to all the boys, and was heartbroken when Michael drowned in 1921 and George was killed in action in 1915. Their brother, Peter Llewelyn-Davies, also committed suicide on April 5th, 1960.

From 1928 onwards, all royalties from the sales of Peter Pan were donated to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1987 (50 years after Barrie's death), when normally royalty rights would have expired, by a special act of Parliament, royalties were allowed to continue going to the hospital in perpetuity.

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