Hannah suffered bouts of mental illness and was committed to the Cane Hill Asylum at Coulsdon.

In 1897, Leo Dryden married singer Marie Tyler (real name Marian Louise Crutchlow) in London.

[5] These examples of colonial fealty were well received by British audiences, and were parodied in Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads.

Dryden also appeared in The Lady of the Lake (1925), an early sound film inspired by the Walter Scott poem.

With the music halls in decline by the 1930s, and his son having joined his Chaplin half-brothers in America, Leo Dryden was reduced to busking in the streets.

He is the paternal grandfather of rock musician Spencer Dryden, the drummer for Jefferson Airplane.