# Henry Spry

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'''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](/source/pantomime) performer who co-wrote and appeared in nearly 50 productions with [George Conquest](/source/George_Augustus_Conquest) at the [Surrey Theatre](/source/Surrey_Theatre) and elsewhere.

==Early life==
Henry Spry was born in 1834 in [Bloomsbury, London](/source/Bloomsbury%2C_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](/source/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](/source/The_Grim_Goblin)''. 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](/source/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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