{{Short description|English essayist and journalist}} thumb '''Arthur Clutton-Brock''' (23 March 1868 – 8 January 1924)<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32459|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/32459|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> 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 Thomas Hill, rector of Felton, Herefordshire. They were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Rev. Henry William Hill, rector of Rock, Worcestershire. The Clutton-Brock family were landed gentry, of Pensax Court, near Tenbury, Worcestershire, where they had lived since the 1600s. They were coal mine owners.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.business-live.co.uk/lifestyle/house-homes/grade-ii-listed-pensax-court-9338759 |title=Grade II listed Pensax Court could be a timely buy - Business Live |website=www.business-live.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616220849/https://www.business-live.co.uk/lifestyle/house-homes/grade-ii-listed-pensax-court-9338759 |archive-date=2019-06-16}} </ref> The family name originated in the adoption of the additional surname of 'Brock' by John Alan's father, Thomas Clutton, J.P., D.L., in 1809, as per a stipulation in the will of his maternal great-uncle, Thomas Brock, of Chester, Cheshire, in which county the Clutton family had been resident since the reign of Henry III.<ref>A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, fifth edition, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, London, 1875, p. 148</ref> He was educated at Summerfields and Eton, then New College, Oxford. Following a short period in a stockbroker's office, he was called to the bar in 1895 by the Inner Temple, working as a barrister for some years.
In 1908 Clutton-Brock was appointed art critic on ''The Times'', having previously occupied the same role on the staff of the ''Tribune'' and ''The Morning Post''; he wrote however on a plethora of subjects, from gardening to religion. In 1903, he married Evelyn Alice, the daughter of the civil engineer Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt<ref name="oup">{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/32459|title=Brock, Arthur Clutton- (1868-1924), essayist and journalist : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - oi|chapter=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |pages=ref:odnb/32459 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32459 |accessdate=2016-02-10}}</ref> He lived at The Red House, Godalming, Surrey.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32459|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/32459|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref>
The historian John William Willis-Bund was first cousin to Clutton-Brock's mother Mary Alice.<ref>A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1871, vol II, ed. Sir Bernard Burke, pg 1526–1527</ref>
==Selected publications== * [https://archive.org/details/eton01clutgoog/page/n9/mode/2up ''Eton''] (1900) * [https://archive.org/details/shelleymanandpo00shelgoog/page/n10/mode/2up ''Shelley: The Man and the Poet''] (1909); [https://archive.org/details/shelleymanpoet00clutrich/page/n7/mode/2up 2nd edition] (1922) * [https://archive.org/details/williammorrishis00clutuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''William Morris: His Work and Influence''] (1914) * [https://archive.org/details/studiesingardeni00clut ''Studies in Gardening''] (1916) * ''Studies in Christianity'' (1918); [https://archive.org/details/cu31924029192511/page/n5/mode/2up reprint] (1922) * [https://archive.org/details/essaysonartclutt00clutiala/page/n5/mode/2up ''Essays on Art''] (1919) * [https://archive.org/details/essaysonbooks00clutuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Essays on Books''] (1920) * [https://archive.org/details/moreessaysonbook00clutuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''More Essays on Books''] (1921)
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