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Herbert Flemming (1855?-1908) was a well-known British-born actor and manager.

Also known as "Bertie Flemming", he started out as an actor in comedy and was said to have become one of the most popular actors on the British stage of his time, and in fact a matinee idol in London in the late 1880s. Was at one time married to the actress
He also toured the colonies, playing and working as a theatre and company manager in Australia and South Africa in the latter years of his life, sometimes in partnership, sometimes with his own Herbert Flemming Company.
He went on to become a company and theatre manager of some renown in South Africa as well as Australia, inter alia working with Robert Brough (1857-1906). For example, the Brough-Flemming Comedy Company brought Beauty and the Barge (W.W. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker) from the Haymarket Theatre, London, to open at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne on 8th July, 1905.