He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1922 King's New Year Honours List for his services to drama.
His two marriages bore no children; however, in 1906, with an unmarried actress called Olive Morris, a cousin of actress Dame Ellen Terry and 26 years his junior, he had a son, Anthony Hawtrey, who was raised by his mother only.
Comedic actor Charles Hawtrey (whose real full name is George Frederick Joffe Hartree) took his name from him.