Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Birth Name: Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge

Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 14 July, 1985

Ethnicity: English, as well as some Scottish, distant Irish

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is an English actress, playwright, producer, and writer.

The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. Phoebe is the daughter of Theresa Mary and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, who founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint. Her brother, Jasper Waller-Bridge, is a music manager, and her sister, Isobel Waller-Bridge, is a composer.

Phoebe’s paternal grandfather was Cyprian Chandos Richard Waller Waller-Bridge (the son of The Rev. Horace FitzHenry Waller-Bridge and Elsie Noëline Waller Ward-Boughton-Leigh). Elsie was the daughter of The Rev. Theodosius Cotterell Henry Ward-Boughton-Leigh and Florence Catherine Maunsell.

Phoebe’s paternal grandmother was Jill Auriol Harvie (the daughter of Walter Bruce Harvie and Auriol Dora Harrington Grayson). Walter was the son of J. W. Harvie. Auriol was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Sir Henry Mulleneux Grayson, 1st Baronet, a shipbuilder and politician, who was a Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, from 1918 to 1922; and of Dora Beatrice Harrington.

Phoebe’s maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet (the son of Lieutenant Francis William Talbot Clerke and Albinia Mary Evans-Lombe). Francis was the son of Sir William Francis Clerke, 11th Baronet, and of Beatrice Menzies. Albina was the daughter of Major Edward Henry Evans-Lombe and Albinia Harriet Leslie-Melville.

Phoebe’s maternal grandmother was Mary Beviss Bond (the daughter of Lt.-Col. Ivor Reginald Beviss Bond and Isobel Ward-Jackson). Ivor was English, and lived at Prosperity, Natal, South Africa. Ivor was the son of Thomas Bond, a surgeon and offender profiler, and of Rosa Sophia Hayes.

Sources: Genealogy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge – http://www.thepeerage.com

Genealogies of Phoebe’s paternal great-grandparents, Walter Bruce Harvie and Auriol Dora Harrington Grayson – https://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com