Life
(1877-1952) [Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy], member of the Cambridge Apostles from 1896 and later prominent in the Bloomsbury set; foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day; son of Charles Desmond MacCarthy, M.A., a descendant of the last MacCarthy Chief of the Name and King of Desmond; b. Plymouth, ed. Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge where he knew Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore; he wrote the obituary of W. B. Yeats in The
Sunday in 1939. [See Wikipedia - online.]
Works incl. Lady John Russell: A Memoir, with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence (NY: Longmans, Green & Co. 1926), xi, 325pp.
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