- Half brother of actor/manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- Ashes buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
- Longtime theater critic of the London stage.
- Was a strong believer in the spoken delivery of blank verse as rhythmical, though unrhymed, verse. He opposed the "conversational style" of reciting Shakespeare, which is in favor today, as being too realistic.
- He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 Queen's Honours List for his services to literature.
- He was of English, Dutch, German, and Lithuanian descent.
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