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Lena Ashwell (28 September 1872 - 13 March 1957) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actress and manager
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
, known as the first to organize large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
.

Born Lena Margaret Pocock on the Wellesley while anchored in the River Tyne
River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in England. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers, the North Tyne and the South Tyne. These two rivers converge at Warden Rock near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'....
, she was the daughter of Commander Pocock and the sister of Roger Pocock, founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen
Legion of Frontiersmen

The Legion of Frontiersmen is a patriotic Paramilitary organisation formed in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1905 by Roger Pocock, a former Constable with the North West Mounted Police and Boer War veteran, to bolster the defensive capacity of the British Empire....
. She grew up in Canada
Canada

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, and studied music in both Lausanne
Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French language-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva , and facing ?vian-les-Bains and with the Jura mountains to its north-west....
 and at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
 in London.






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Lena Ashwell (28 September 1872 - 13 March 1957) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actress and manager
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
, known as the first to organize large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
.

Born Lena Margaret Pocock on the Wellesley while anchored in the River Tyne
River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in England. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers, the North Tyne and the South Tyne. These two rivers converge at Warden Rock near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'....
, she was the daughter of Commander Pocock and the sister of Roger Pocock, founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen
Legion of Frontiersmen

The Legion of Frontiersmen is a patriotic Paramilitary organisation formed in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1905 by Roger Pocock, a former Constable with the North West Mounted Police and Boer War veteran, to bolster the defensive capacity of the British Empire....
. She grew up in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, and studied music in both Lausanne
Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French language-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva , and facing ?vian-les-Bains and with the Jura mountains to its north-west....
 and at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a college or university school of music, Britian's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999....
 in London. Her voice however was insufficient for performance and she took up acting instead. In 1891, she debuted in The Pharisee, and in 1895 she appeared in King Arthur, by J. Comyns Carr
J. Comyns Carr

Joseph William Comyns Carr was an English people drama and art critic, gallery director, author, poet, playwright and theatre manager.Beginning his career as an art critic, Carr was a vigorous advocate for Pre-Raphaelite art and a vocal critic of the "short-sighted" art establishment....
, with Ellen Terry
Ellen Terry

Dame Ellen Terry, Order of the British Empire was an English people stage actor. Terry became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain....
 and Sir Henry Irving
Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving , born John Henry Brodribb, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era. He was the first actor to be awarded a knighthood....
. She went on to appear in a number of Shakespeare productions, in Quo Vadis
Quo vadis

Quo vadis? is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" or "Whither goest thou?". The phrase refers to a legend in Christian tradition, related in the apocryphal Acts of Peter , in which Saint Peter meets Jesus as Peter is running from being crucified in Rome....
 (1900), and as the lead in Mrs Dane's Defence
Mrs Dane's Defence

Mrs. Dane's Defence is a society play in four acts by the British playwright Henry Arthur Jones....
 (1900) and Leah Kleschna (1905).

Beginning in 1906, she took up theatre management, initially at the Savoy Theatre
Savoy Theatre

The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand, London in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas...
, then in 1907 she established her own theatre known as the Kingsway. She married the royal obstetrician Henry Simpson
Henry Simpson

Henry Simpson is a Portugal philosophy and economics. He was born in Lisbon 1959, son of William Simpson, former finance director of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Liliana Brandao, daughter of Alvaro Brand?o, a Portuguese aristocrat....
 in 1908. In 1915, she began to organize companies of actors to travel to France and perform; by the end of the war there were 25 of them.

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