Fox Strangways, A(rthur) H(enry) (1859-1948)

English musicologist, critic, and editor. He was educated at Wellington College and Balliol College, Oxford, and also studied in Berlin, Germany. After teaching at Dulwich and Wellington Colleges until 1910, and visiting India, on the music of which he wrote a book (The Music of Hindostan), he became assistant critic of The Times in London in 1911 and chief critic of the Observer in 1925. He founded Music and Letters in 1920 and edited it until 1936. He also wrote a biography of Cecil Sharp and translated many songs (some with Steuart Wilson), by Schubert, Brahms, and Wolf.