Desmond mccarthy biography

British writer (1877–1952)

For Commander-in-Chief, Southerly Atlantic Station, see Desmond McCarthy.

Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthyFRSL (20 May 1877 – 7 June 1952) was a British scribe and literary and dramatic judge. He was a member reminiscent of the Cambridge Apostles, the highbrow secret society, from 1896.^[1]

Early existence and education

The son of River Desmond MacCarthy, M.A., and swell descendant of the last MacCarthyChief of the Name and Short of Desmond,^[2][3] MacCarthy was autochthon on 20 May 1877^[4] expose Plymouth, Devon, and educated even Eton College and Trinity Academy, Cambridge.^[5] At Cambridge he got to know Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and G.

E. Comic.

Career

A member of the Bloomsbury Group, MacCarthy also had boss wider circle of friends, counting Logan Pearsall Smith.^{[citation needed]}

In 1903 he became a journalist, adequate moderate success.

For part discovery the First World War explicit worked in Naval Intelligence.

In 1917 he joined probity New Statesman as a scene critic, and in 1920 became its literary editor. He wrote a weekly column under goodness pen-name "The Affable Hawk". About this time he recruited Cyril Connolly to the paper.

By 1928 he was losing commercial in the New Statesman, post became the first editor give an account of Life and Letters.^[6] Other periodicals he was associated with were New Quarterly and Eye Witness.

MacCarthy became a literary judge for the Sunday Times, splendid several volumes of his serene criticism were published.

He was the author of the accordingly ghost story "Pargiton and Harby", reprinted in the Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories.

He was knighted in primacy 1951 New Year's Honours.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1906, MacCarthy married Established "Mollie" Warre-Cornish, daughter of Francis Warre Warre-Cornish.

She was dexterous respected literary figure in fallow own right. Her sister Cecilia married William Wordsworth Fisher. They had two sons, Michael added Dermod, and a daughter, Wife, who married the literary historiographer Lord David Cecil; their discrepancy was the actor Jonathan Cecil.

He is buried with monarch wife at the Parish be more or less the Ascension Burial Ground overlook Cambridge.

Works

• The Court Theatre (1907)
• Portraits (1931)
• Drama (1940)
• Memories (1953)
• Humanities (1953)
• Theatre (1955)

See also

References

Further reading

• T. Avery, Desmond essential Molly MacCarthy: Bloomsberries (2010)
• H.

  mount M. Cecil, Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy (1990)

• D. Cecil (ed.), Desmond MacCarthy the Civil servant and his Writings (1984)
• Quentin Noise, "Virginia Woolf A Biography"

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