Henry Lowenfeld

Henry Lowenfeld in Polish, Henryk Loewenfeld, (1 September 1859 – 4 November 1931) was a Polish-born British entrepreneur and theatrical impresario.

He was born in Warsaw, the son of a tycoon, Emanuel Loewenfeld and his wife, Rose, who were said to own the town of Chrzanów in Lesser Poland.

[2] In 1890, Lowenfeld built the Kops Brewery, the UK's first producer of non-alcoholic beer in Townmead Road, Fulham, London.

[4] In a letter of 1906 to Siegfried Trebitsch, George Bernard Shaw wrote that Lowenfeld had "made a lot of money in a lucky railway speculation", and used it to enter theatre management, mostly "musical comedy of the vulgarest kind", but that soon after building the Apollo Theatre, he "came to grief and vanished, much discredited".

The two daughters were both sent to a Froebel kindergarten and brought up in the Church of England, while the influence of Poland remained important in their childhood and beyond.