Alan Pryce-Jones

Lt-Col. Alan Payan Pryce-Jones TD (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2000) was a British book critic, writer, journalist and Liberal Party politician.

His grandfather was the merchant entrepreneur Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones of Montgomeryshire.

[1] In 1934 he married Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer (2 May 1914 – 13 February 1953),[2] a daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer, a French-born banker, and great-granddaughter of Baron Max Springer [fr].

He was editor, The Times Literary Supplement, 1948–59, book critic for the New York Herald Tribune, 1963–66, the World Journal Tribune, 1967–68, Newsday, 1969–71, and theatre critic for Theatre Arts from 1963.

However, his political career was cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.