1. Clifford Lea Bax was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer.
12 Facts About Clifford Bax
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The composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words to music.
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The youngest son of Alfred Ridley Clifford Bax and his wife, Charlotte Ellen, daughter of Rev William Knibb Lea, of Amoy, China, Clifford Bax was born in Upper Tooting, south London.
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Clifford Bax's father was a barrister of the Middle Temple, but having a private income he did not practise.
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Clifford Bax was educated at the Slade and the Heatherley Art School.
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Clifford Bax had an apartment in Albany, the apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.
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Clifford Bax was a friend of Gustav Holst, whom he introduced to astrology, the critic James Agate, and Arthur Ransome, among others.
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Clifford Bax 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.
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Clifford Bax was involved in the Phoenix Society, concerned with reviving older plays, and the Incorporated Stage Society.
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Clifford Bax edited, with Austin Osman Spare, Golden Hind, an artistic and literary magazine that appeared from October 1922 to July 1924.
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Clifford Bax married actress and jewellery-maker Gwendolen Daphne Bishop, nee Bernhard-Smith, on 21 September 1910.
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In 1927, Clifford Bax married Vera, nee Rawnsley, a painter and poet.