Harold Brighouse

Born in Eccles, Lancashire, on July 26, 1882, Harold Brighouse became an English playwright and author whose work is closely associated with the Manchester School of dramatists. His writing is remembered for its clear sense of place and for its attention to working- and lower-middle-class life in the North of England.

His most famous play, Hobson’s Choice, remains the work most readers and theatergoers connect with him. The play’s humor, strong characters, and sharp view of class and family life helped it last well beyond its original era, and it is still the title most often linked to his name.

Brighouse died in London on July 25, 1958, one day before his seventy-sixth birthday. Reliable image search on the sources I checked did not surface a clear usable portrait from the page results, so no profile image is included here.