Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet (8 February 1906-21 December 1988), was a British biographer.

Magnus-Allcroft was born in London, the grandson of the educationalist and Conservative politician Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet. He was a member of a notable Jewish family; his grandmother was the historian Katie Magnus and he was also related to the Montefiores.

During the Second World War he was a Captain in the Royal Artillery and Army Intelligence Corps, rising to the rank of Major. He married Jewell Allcroft in 1943, and in 1951 added the name of Allcroft to his own by deed poll.

In later years, as well as writing, he served as a Justice of the Peace, Shropshire county councillor, chairman of the planning committee and of the records committee, chairman of the governors of Attingham College and governor of Ludlow grammar school. Between 1970 and 1977 he was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He lived in Stokesay Court, Shropshire, England.

He died on 21 December 1988. As he and his wife left no children, the title passed to his nephew, Laurence Henry Philip Magnus.

[edit] Bibliography

• Edmund Burke, 1948
• Sir Walter Raleigh, 1952
• Gladstone - a biography, 1954
• Kitchener - portrait of an Imperialist, 1958
• King Edward the Seventh, 1964

[edit] References

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Philip Magnus	Baronet (of Tangley Hill) 1933–1988	Succeeded by Laurence Henry Philip Magnus