Horniman
ANNIE ELIZABETH FREDERICKA, British theatrical manager. She was born at Forest Hill, Kent, England, in 1860. She was educated partly privately and partly in the Slade School under Professor Legros.
Became interested in theaters and the suffrage; studied astrology; made an attempt at dramatic affairs at the Avenue Theater in 1894; later helped to form the Irish National Theater Society at the Abbey Theater, Dublin; bought the Gaiety Theater, Manchester, and started the first theater with a Catholic repertoire in England in 1908.