The Beerbohm family are the descendants of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm, the son of Ernest Henery Beerbohm and Henrietta Radke (1767–1855), and of Dutch, Lithuanian and German origin, who hailed from Memel on the Baltic coast. He moved to England in about 1830 and set up as a corn merchant. He first married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper (1827–1858); the couple had four children. Following her death, in 1860 he married Eliza Draper (1834–1918), Constantia's sister, and had another five children. As a deceased wife's sister, Eliza's marriage to Julius Beerbohm was celebrated outside the United Kingdom.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager.