Alan Francis Clutton-Brock (8 October 1904 – 18 December 1976) was an English art critic and essayist. Clutton-Brock was born in

Weybridge Weybridge () is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a cro ...

, Surrey, the son of

Arthur Clutton-Brock Arthur Clutton-Brock (23 March 1868 – 8 January 1924) was an English essayist, critic and journalist. Arthur Clutton-Brock was born at Weybridge, third son of John Alan Clutton-Brock, a banker, and his wife Mary Alice, daughter of Rev. Henry Th ...

. He was educated at

Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Places *Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England *Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States *Éton, a commune in the Meuse depa ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

."Clutton-Brock, Prof. Alan Francis"
''Who Was Who'', Oxford University Press, retrieved 26 June 2016 He was art critic of ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...

'', 1945–55, a trustee of the

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current di ...

, and

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...

, at Cambridge, 1955–58. He wrote books of art criticism, a biography of

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of the Roma ...

, and a detective story, ''Murder at Liberty Hall''. During the Second World War he served in the

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) was established in 1936 to support the preparedness of the U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) in the event of another war. The Air Ministry intended it to form a supplement to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force ( ...

. Clutton-Brock was twice married. His first wife, Shelagh, ''née'' Archer, with whom he had a daughter (

Juliet Clutton-Brock Juliet Clutton-Brock, FSA, FZS (6 September 1933 – 21 September 2015) was an English zooarchaeologist and curator, specialising in domesticated mammals. From 1969 to 1993, she worked at the Natural History Museum. Between 1999 and 2006, she ...

) and a son, died in a road accident in 1936. In the same year he married Barbara Foy Mitchell, with whom he had a daughter."Mr Alan Clutton-Brock", ''The Times'', 21 December 1976, p. 14 He died at his home,

Chastleton House Chastleton House () is a Jacobean country house at Chastleton, Oxfordshire, England, close to Moreton-in-Marsh (). It has been owned by the National Trust since 1991 and is a Grade I listed building. History Chastleton House was built betwee ...

, Oxfordshire, aged 72.Farr, Dennis
"Brock, Alan Francis Clutton- (1904–1976)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 26 June 2016

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