- Kay Hawtrey
Kay Hawtrey is a Canadian actress, born in
Toronto onNovember 8 ,1926 .Full name Katharine Mary Craven Hawtrey, she is part of the Canadian branch of this very old English family, whose seat was the
Elizabethan era Eastcote House in the London suburb ofEastcote , which was demolished to make way for theLondon underground extension. Only thedovecote , a wall, and coach house survive. The family became visible with Ralph Hawtrey, whose only daughter became LadyMary Bankes when she married SirJohn Bankes ,Chief Justice to Charles 1st. As a Royalist, she defended their home inDorset ,Corfe Castle , against theparliamentarian s in 1643 at the time of the first Civil War. There is a plaque commemorating her heroic act on the South wall ofRuislip church. Her great great grandfather wasEdward Craven Hawtrey (1789-1862) headmaster ofEton College . The family then turned to the quite separate professions of acting, economics, and athletics, producing in the first instanceSir Charles Hawtrey (not Charles Hawtrey, the Carry On actor who borrowed the name) and Anthony Hawtrey, Sir Ralph Hawtrey, the pre-Keynesian economist in the second, and thirdly, England's champion runner in the 1906 Olympics,Henry Hawtrey .Educated at Toronto's Trinity College, she appeared in television plays for the CBC and married English actor John Clark in 1956. They moved to
New York in 1959, where they had a son, naming himJonathan Hawtrey Clark in 1963. She and her husband weredivorce d in 1967, and thereafter she returned toToronto with their son, where she appeared in many film and television productions. She is best remembered for the 1980 film "Funeral Home".ee also
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* [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Dorset/bankesmisc.html Hawtrey/Bankes history]
* [http://members.aol.com/tchawtrey/HawtreyPage21.htm The Hawtrey Long List]
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