Desmond maccarthy biography

British writer (1877–1952)

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

Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthyFRSL (20 May 1877 – 7 June 1952) was a British writer and literary and dramatic critic.

He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896.^[1]

Early life and education

The son of Charles Desmond MacCarthy, M.A., and a descendant of the last MacCarthyChief of the Name and King of Desmond,^[2][3] MacCarthy was born on 20 May 1877^[4] in Plymouth, Devon, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[5] At Cambridge he got to know Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and G.

E. Moore.

Career

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

In 1903 he became a journalist, with moderate success.

For part of the First World War he worked in