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Also Known As William Pole
Born July 22, 1852 • London • England
Died December 13, 1934 (aged 82) • London • England
Founder Elizabethan Stage Society

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Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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