Editing Herbert Beerbohm Tree (section)

==Personal life ==
[[File:Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1915.jpg|thumb|upright|Tree in 1915 aboard a passenger liner]]
[[File:Portrait of Helen Maud Holt.jpg|thumb|Mrs Beerbohm Tree as Ophelia in ''[[Hamlet]]'']]

Tree married actress [[Helen Maud Holt]] (1863–1937) in 1882; she often played opposite him and assisted him with management of the theatres. Her charm also assisted the couple's entry into prominent social and élite artistic and intellectual circles. Their daughters were actresses [[Viola Tree]] (who married theatre critic Alan Parsons) and [[Felicity Tree]] (who married Sir [[Geoffrey Cory-Wright]], third baronet) and poet [[Iris Tree]] (who married [[Curtis Moffat]], becoming Countess Ledebur). Tree also fathered several illegitimate children (six with Beatrice May Pinney), including film director [[Carol Reed]] and Peter Reed, father of the British actor [[Oliver Reed]].<ref>{{IMDb name|0001657|Oliver Reed (I)}}</ref><ref>[http://www.cyranos.ch/spbeet-e.htm Portrait of the Actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree], the Cyranos film website. Retrieved 23 September 2009</ref> He was also the grandfather of Hollywood screenwriter and producer [[Ivan Moffat]].<ref name=tele>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1403420/Ivan-Moffat.html "Ivan Moffat"], obituary in ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 3 August 2002. Retrieved 18 April 2012</ref><ref>[http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/getperson.php?personID=I11293&tree=UKEire "Iris Winifred R D Tree"], Genealogy of the Moffat Family. Retrieved 27 September 2022</ref>

Tree founded the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] (RADA) in 1904.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/15/101342243.pdf "Gilbert's New Play; ''The Fairy's Dilemma'' Is Brilliantly Nonsensical"], ''The New York Times'', 15 May 1904, p. 4</ref> He also served as president of the Theatrical Managers' Association and assisted the Actors' Benevolent Fund and the Actors' Association. For his contributions to theatre, he was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1909.<ref>[http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0849337.html "Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm"], Infoplease.com, Retrieved 27 September 2022</ref> During [[World War I]], Tree contributed his celebrity by delivering patriotic addresses. He wrote several books discussing the importance of the theatre and the arts in modern society.<ref name=mg/>

Tree's last professional undertaking was a visit to Los Angeles in 1915 fulfilling a contract with a film company. He was in America for the greater part of 1915 and 1916.<ref name=dnbold/> He returned to England in 1917 and died, aged 64, from pulmonary blood clots. According to writer [[Vera Brittain]], he died suddenly in the arms of her friend, the novelist [[Winifred Holtby]], then aged 19 and working as a nursing assistant at a fashionable London nursing home where Tree was recuperating from surgery to repair a broken leg.<ref>Brittain, Vera. ''Testament of Friendship'' (1940), p. 60 in Virago paperback edition</ref> His remains were cremated, and his ashes are buried at the additional burial ground of [[St John-at-Hampstead]] church.<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/cemetery/792/000208168 "St. John-at-Hampstead Churchyard, London, England"], [[NNDB]], 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2016</ref>