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Clifford Lea Bax (13 July 1886 – 18 November 1962)[2][3] was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. He also was a translator (for example, of Goldoni). The composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words to music.

Clifford Bax
Clifford Bax in 1916
Born(1886-07-13)13 July 1886[1]
Upper Tooting, London, England
Died18 November 1962(1962-11-18) (aged 76)[1]
RelativesArnold Bax (brother)

Life


The youngest son of Alfred Ridley Bax (1844–1918) and his wife, Charlotte Ellen (1860–1940), daughter of Rev. William Knibb Lea, of Amoy, China,[4][2] Bax was born in Upper Tooting, south London (not Knightsbridge, as sometimes stated). His father was a barrister of the Middle Temple, but having a private income he did not practise. In 1896 the family moved to a mansion in Hampstead.[5] He was educated at the Slade and the Heatherley Art School.[6] He gave up painting to concentrate on writing.

Independent wealth gave Bax time to write, and social connections. He had an apartment in Albany, the apartment complex in Piccadilly, London. He was a friend of Gustav Holst, whom he introduced to astrology,[7] the critic James Agate, and Arthur Ransome, among others. He met and played chess with Aleister Crowley in 1904, and kept up an acquaintance with him over the years, later in the 1930s introducing both the artist Frieda Harris and the writer John Symonds to him.[8] An early venture (1908–1914) was Orpheus, a theosophical magazine he edited. His interest in the esoteric extended to editing works of Jakob Boehme, and helping Allan Bennett, the Buddhist.

His first play on the commercial stage was The Poetasters of Ispahan (1912), and he became a fixture of British drama for a generation. He was involved in the Phoenix Society (1919–1926), concerned with reviving older plays, and the Incorporated Stage Society.

He also edited, with Austin Osman Spare, Golden Hind, an artistic and literary magazine that appeared from October 1922 to July 1924.

A cricket enthusiast, he was a friend of C. B. Fry[9] and wrote a biography of W. G. Grace.


Family


He married actress and jewellery-maker Gwendolen Daphne Bishop, née Bernhard-Smith, on 28 September 1910. Their daughter, Undine, was born 6 August 1911.[citation needed]

In 1927, Bax married Vera, née Rawnsley, a painter and poet (1888–1974). Rawnsley was previously married to Stanley Kennedy North, an artist, and Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938), a journalist with whom she had two sons: William David Loraine Filson-Young and Richard Filson-Young; they—Bax's stepsons—were both killed in World War II.[10]


Works



Notes


  1. Colin Chambers, ed. (14 July 2006). Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. Continuum. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-84714-001-2.
  2. Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, A. C. Fox-Davies, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1910, p. 106
  3. Arnold Bax, Colin Scott-Sutherland, Dent, 1973, p. 4
  4. Foreman, Lewis. "Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, retrieved 16 September 2015 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  6. Clifford Bax collection, 1924-1926
  7. "Gustav Holst (1874–1934) | The Planets". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2007.
  8. Biography of Frieda Harris, artist for the Thoth Tarot Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Authors OnLine – C.B. Fry – An English Hero by Iain Wilton Archived 8 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Mazzarella, Sylvester. "Filson Young: The first media man (1876–1938); part 29- Vera". Retrieved 8 December 2020.



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- [en] Clifford Bax

[es] Clifford Bax

Clifford Bax (13 de julio de 1886 - 18 de noviembre de 1962) fue un escritor, poeta, periodista, traductor y dramaturgo inglés. Además, tradujo las obras de Goldini al inglés; era hermano del compositor Arnold Bax.[1]

[ru] Бакс, Клиффорд

Клиффорд Бакс (англ. Clifford Bax, 13 июля 1886 года, Лондон — 18 ноября 1962 года, Лондон) — многожанровый английский писатель: драматург, журналист, критик, редактор и поэт. Он также был переводчиком (например, Карло Гольдони). Брат композитора Арнольда Бакса, переложившего на музыку некоторые его стихи.


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