Geoffrey Whitworth

Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth CBE (7 April 1883 – 9 September 1951)[1] was an English lecturer and author who sought to promote amateur and professional theatre through the formation of the British Drama League, acting as its director for many years.

Whitworth was instrumental in the founding of the National Theatre, and served the committee lobbying for this as its secretary.

Though not an actor, he was praised by George Bernard Shaw as one of the most important figures in the history of British theatre.

The library he assembled is a large and important collection, now held at the Theatre Museum at Covent Garden.

He was the drama critic of John O'London's Weekly (1922) and the Christian Science Monitor (1923).