[1] Antcliffe attended Sheffield University in its formative years[2] where he first encountered the conductor and composer Henry Coward, who remained a friend.
After World War 1 he moved to The Hague, where he lived at 73, van Merlenstraat,[7] to further his long-standing expertise in Dutch music.
[3] Antcliffe was a regular contributor to British, European, American and South African musical journals from the early 1900s until the 1950s.
The Chorusmaster (1928) is a practical guide for organising and conducting choirs and choral societies, one of several of his books aimed at amateurs.
[11] Caught in Holland by the Nazi invasion, Antcliffe was unable to continue his journalistic activities, and with his Dutch wife Helena Borsboom suffered from near-starvation.