Felicity Tree

Who was Felicity Tree?

Felicity, Lady Cory-Wright was an English baronetess, the daughter of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his wife, the actress Helen Maud Holt. She was the sister of Viola Tree and Iris Tree, and the niece of author Constance Beerbohm, caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm, and the engineer and explorer Julius Beerbohm.

She married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, 3rd Baronet Cory-Wright, son of Sir Arthur Cory Cory-Wright, 2nd Bt, and Elizabeth Olive Clothier, on 10 November 1915. Because of the celebrity of her father, the World War I wedding was filmed, showing the bride leaving with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree from the parental home and arriving at the church. Felicity Tree's two sisters are shown as bridesmaids with Lady Tree followed by the bride and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. The bride and her father are shown entering the car, and the bride and groom leaving the church, posing for the camera. The couple went on to have five children. Two of her sons, Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright and Lieutenant Jonathan Francis Cory-Wright were killed in action during World War II.

She was a member of the Ladies Stage Golfing Society, founded in 1921, and won the inaugural contest. Felicity Tree died in 1978.