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Clifford Bax (13 July 1886 - 18 November 1962) was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He also was a translator, for example of Goldoni. Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793 was a celebrated Venetian Playwright and Librettist, whom critics today rank among the European The composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words to music. Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO ( 8 November 1883 &ndash 3 October 1953) was an English Composer and poet

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Life

He was born in Knightsbridge, London. Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of Central London. Education was at the Slade and the Heatherly Art School[1]. Slade School of Fine Art is the art school of University College London, UK He gave up painting to concentrate on writing.

Independent wealth gave Bax time to write, and social connections. He had an apartment in The Albany. The Albany or Albany (since the mid-20th century some sources have claimed that the article is not in use among the fashionable is an apartment complex in Piccadilly He was a friend of Gustav Holst, whom he introduced to astrology[2], the critic James Agate, and Arthur Ransome, amongst others. Gustav Theodore Holst (21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934was an English Composer and was a music teacher for nearly 20 years Astrology (from Greek grc ἄστρον astron, "constellation star" and grc -λογία -logia) is a group of Systems James Evershed Agate ( September 9, 1877 - June 6, 1947) was a British diarist and critic and a notable collector of Aphorisms Arthur Mitchell Ransome (born 18 January 1884 in Leeds - died 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist 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[3]. Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (ˈkroʊli (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947 was a British Occultist Writer, mountaineer Frieda Harris (born in London 1877 died 11 May 1962 in Srinagar, India was an associate of the occultist Aleister Crowley and designed John Symonds (b March 12 1914, Battersea, London - d October 21 2006) was an English novelist biographer playwright An early venture (1908-1914) was Orpheus, a theosophical magazine he edited. This article is about the philosophy introduced by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky His interest in the esoteric extended to editing works of Jakob Boehme, and helping Allan Bennett, the Buddhist. Jakob Böhme (probably April 24 1575 &ndash November 17 1624) was a German Christian mystic and Theologian

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. Austin Osman Spare ( 31 December 1886 - 15 May 1956) was an English Artist who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques

A cricket enthusiast, he was a friend of C. B. Fry[4] and wrote a biography of W.G. Grace. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Charles Burgess Fry ( 25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956) was an English Polymath; an outstanding Sportsman William Gilbert Grace ( 18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English Cricketer who by his extraordinary skills made

Family

He married in 1927 Vera, nee Rawnsley, a painter and poet (1888-1974). She had married previously Stanley Kennedy North, an artist, and Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876-1938), a journalist; Bax's two stepsons by the second of those marriages were both killed in World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including [5]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ Clifford Bax collection, 1924-1926
  2. ^ Gustav Holst (1874–1934) | The Planets
  3. ^ Biography of Frieda Harris, artist for the Thoth Tarot
  4. ^ Authors OnLine - C.B. Fry - An English Hero by Iain Wilton
  5. ^ Richard D North :: Elders & Betters

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