{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} '''Henry Thomas Augustus Spry''' (bapt. 2 July 1834 – 17 February 1904)<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915''</ref> was an English playwright and pantomime performer who co-wrote and appeared in nearly 50 productions with George Conquest at the Surrey Theatre and elsewhere.
==Early life== Henry Spry was born in 1834 in Bloomsbury, London to Charles and Sarah Maria Spry.
==Family== Spry married Eliza Sarah Hassan in 1859.<ref>''England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973''</ref> Their daughter Alice was an actress.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/18950928/030/0011 |title=Marriages |date=28 September 1895 |website=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Career== Spry was a playwright and pantomime performer who co-wrote and appeared in nearly 50 productions with George Conquest at the Surrey Theatre and elsewhere.<ref name="Law2013">"Conquest family" in {{cite book |editor-last=Law |editor-first=Jonathan |title=The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb-OAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA124|year=2011|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|isbn=978-1-4081-3148-0|page=124}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=David |last1=Pickering |first2=John |last2=Morley |name-list-style=amp |date=1993 |title=Encyclopedia of Pantomime |location=Andover |publisher=Gale Research International |isbn=978-1-873477458}}</ref><ref name="Stephens">{{cite book |last=Stephens |first=John Russell |title=The Profession of the Playwright: British Theatre, 1800-1900| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4lbB2vNCEIAC&pg=PA9|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-03443-2|page=9}}</ref>
He died in 1904 in Islington, aged 69.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001179/19040331/082/0011 |accessdate=12 February 2019 |work=The Stage |date=31 March 1904 |page=11 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Works with George Conquest== *''Spitz-Spitz the Spider Crab; or The Pirate of Spitsbergen''. Grecian Theatre, 1875. *''The Grim Goblin; or, Harlequin Octopus, the Devil Fish, and the Fairies of the Flowery Dell''. Grecian Theatre, 1876. *''Jack and the Beanstalk, which grew to the moon; or, the Giant, Jack Frost and the Ha-Ha Balloon''. Surrey Theatre, 1886. Starring Dan Leno and wife. *''Sinbad and the Little Old Man of the Sea; or, The Tinker, the Tailor, the Soldier, the Sailor, Apothecary, Ploughboy, Gentleman Thief''. Surrey Theatre, 1887. Starring Dan Leno and wife.
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