Harold Marsh Harwood (29 March 1874 – 19 April 1959) was a British businessman, playwright, screenwriter and theatre manager.
This period was cut short when he moved back north to Bolton, aged 26, to join the management of the family firm.
[6] In 1906 Harwood became a Justice of the Peace for Bolton;[8] he identified himself as a Liberal Party supporter, of Hill Top, Heaton.
[12] The autumn 1912 season of the Bolton Amateur Dramatic Company consisted of Rutherford & Son by Githa Sowerby and The Return of the Prodigal by St John Hankin.
[14] In mid-1915 he was transferred from Red Cross work in France to St Thomas's Hospital, as one of those taking charge of its military wards.
[17][18] Harwood's own play A Grain of Mustard Seed had a run at the Ambassadors in 1920, and then transferred to the Kingsway Theatre for a month.
[14] In Bolton Harwood put on plays by Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw (Arms and the Man), Elizabeth Baker (Chains), and John Galsworthy (The Silver Box).
Realistic exposé of British political games, and a vivid picture of after-war results on women—the younger and most impressionable, the more startling.
[20] Harwood had been carrying on an affair with a married woman, with whom he had a son, and to protect his access to the boy the marriage was covert, not being made public for some time.