Howard & Wyndham
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Howard & Wyndham Ltd theatre owners and managers was founded in 1895 in Scotland by its chairman and main shareholder Michael Simons of Glasgow, head of the largest fruit brokers in the UK, David Heilbron, also of Glasgow and Robert Crawford of Edinburgh, both whisky distillers. Its first managing director was actor/manager Fred Wyndham, who was succeeded by A Stewart Cruikshank in 1930. It became one of the largest theatre groups in Britain with 25 theatres outside London. The Simons family continued to chair it until 1944.
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