Philip hope wallace biography

Philip Adrian Hope-Wallace CBE was an English music and theatre critic, whose career was mostly with The Manchester Guardian.

  • Philip Hope-Wallace, who joined the Guardian 33 years ago as chief theatre reviewer and opera critic, died yesterday in hospital at the age of 67.
  • After the war he returned to journalism, writing on music and theatre for The Daily Telegraph (1945–46) and then for The Manchester Guardian (from 1959 known as The Guardian), where he remained for the rest of his life.
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    • After the war he returned to journalism, writing on music and theatre for The Daily Telegraph (1945–46) and then for The Manchester Guardian (from 1959 known as The Guardian), where he remained for the rest of his life.!

    Philip Hope-Wallace

    Philip Adrian Hope-WallaceCBE (6 November 1911 – 3 September 1979) was an English music and theatre critic, whose career was mostly with The Manchester Guardian (later known as The Guardian).

    From university he went into journalism after abortive attempts at other work, and apart from a stint at the Air Ministry throughout the Second World War, his career was wholly in arts journalism in newspapers, magazines and in broadcasting.

    Life and career

    Hope-Wallace was born in London, the third and youngest child and only son of Charles Nugent Hope-Wallace, MBE, principal clerk of the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and his wife, Mabel Florence, daughter of Colonel Allan Chaplin, of the Madras Army.

    A great-grandson of Admiral Charles Ramsay Bethune, 24th Laird of Balfour, he was also descended from John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun and George Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath.[1] Philip attended Charterhouse School, after which, owing to a