Lechmere Worrall

Lechmere Worrall Clark, son of Richard Philip Charles and Jane Clark, was born on 4 April 1875 and was baptised at St James’, Bristol on 28 May 1875. He studied medicine before turning to the stage, and his entry in the Medical and Dental Students Register on 23 October 1896 gives his name as Lechmere Worrall. He achieved considerable success, in particular with his hit 'the Man Who Stayed At Home'. He gave an interview published in The Globe on 11 December 1914 under the headline ‘“Why We Wrote It.” Chat With Authors Of The “Spy” Play'. One passage reads, 'Strangely enough, “The Man Who Stayed at Home” is literally the work of men who stayed at home when they wished to be serving their country....My own health prevented me from offering services. We were at work on another play at the time, but we thought it would be good idea to show the armchair critics that a man may stay at home and still be intensely patriotic. That is why we wrote this play"'.Before his death, he had been a patient in a Rest Hospital for seven years. He was 82 when he died.