Alderson Burrell Horne

[5] He had a large house, Ditton Place, built near Balcombe, Sussex, in 1904, with a formal garden by Reginald Blomfield.

[6][7] In 1914 he was chairman of Morib Plantations, Ltd.[8] Beginning an involvement with theatre, initially as a backer, Horne ultimately became an actor-manager.

[12] That year, the company had a run of three weeks for James Bernard Fagan at the Oxford Playhouse, playing Ibsen, Somerset Maugham and Roland Pertwee.

[3][14] He brought from Cambridge a company including Robert Eddison, Evan John, Flora Robson and Gillian Scaife.

Early in his tenure at the Westminster, the overlapping company of the Group Theatre of London emerged, with outsiders such as Rupert Doone and Ormerod Greenwood.