Clifford Bax

BAX, Clifford Lea. b. Streatham, London, 13 July 1886; d. London, 18 November 1962. Born into a prosperous family which moved to Hampstead in 1896, Bax was the youngest brother of the distinguished composer Sir Arnold Bax. He had ambitions to be a painter, and studied at the Slade School and the Heatherly Art School. He then spent the years 1904-06 travelling and learning languages in Europe, particularly in Germany. Returning to England, he became well known as a man of letters, producing plays, poems, ballad operas, and biographies (including a life of W.G. Grace, the most famous cricketer of his day). Apart from some years in Wiltshire (1912-16) he lived in London: he was buried in...