Weedon Grossmith, brother of George, was born in 1854. He was educated at the Slade and the Royal Academy with a view to following a career as a painter, and exhibited at the Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. Joining a theatrical company in 1885, he toured the provinces and America, specializing in the representation of character of the 'Mr Pooter' type (the protagonist of Diary of a Nobody (1892), which he wrote alongside his brother George).
His novel, A Woman with a History, was published in 1896, and the best known of his many plays, The Night of the Party, in 1901. He eventually took over the management of Terry's Theatre London, appearing in various parts there and elsewhere until 1917, and died in 1919 in London.
