Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, CBE JP (8 February 1906 – 21 December 1988), was a British biographer.
Educated at Westminster School and Wadham College, Oxford, Magnus succeeded to the baronetcy in 1933.
During the Second World War he was a captain in the Royal Artillery[1] and the Intelligence Corps, rising to the rank of major.
In later years, as well as writing, he served as a justice of the peace, Shropshire County Councillor, chairman of its planning committee and the records committee, chairman of the governors of Attingham College and governor of Ludlow Grammar School.
[citation needed] Magnus-Allcroft (under pen-name Philip Magnus) was author of several biographies: