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Clifford Sharp

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British journalist

Clifford Dyce Sharp (1883–1935)^[1]^[2] was a British journalist. He was the first editor of theNew Statesman magazine from its foundation in 1913 until 1928; a left-wing magazine founded bySidney andBeatrice Webb and other members of the socialistFabian Society. He had previously editedThe Crusade.

InWorld War I he was a "fierce opponent" of the war and was so irksome to the Government thatDavid Lloyd George personally arranged his conscription into the Royal Artillery. He was rescued by recruitment to the Foreign Office, and was sent to neutral Sweden, in association withArthur Ransome.^[3]

In 1909 Sharp married Rosamund Bland, who was the adopted daughter ofEdith Nesbit, the author ofThe Railway Children, and the natural daughter of Nesbit's husbandHubert Bland.^[4]

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^Adrian Smith,The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931. London, Frank Cass, 1996 .ISBN 0714646458 (p. 284)
^Anne Jackson Fremantle,This Little Band of Prophets: The British Fabians.New American Library, 1960 (p. 303)
^Ronald Chambers (2009).The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome. faber and faber, London. p. 250.ISBN 978-0-571-22261-2.
^Gaipa, Mark."Nesbit, E. (Edith) (1858–1924)".Modernist Journals Project. Retrieved19 June 2019.