Sidney Dark

Sidney Ernest Dark (14 January 1874 – 11 October 1947) was an English journalist, author and critic who was editor of the Church Times, among other publications.

Dark wrote more than 30 books on subjects ranging from the church to literature and theatre, as well as biographies and novels.

[1] At the Church Times Dark's left-leaning politics often clashed with the traditional Tory values of the owner, Fred Palmer.

His novels were The Man Who Would Not Be King and Afraid, and his biographical works covered W. S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Pearson and Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax.

Critical of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Catholic Church's anti-communist alliance with them before the Second World War, Dark was also concerned about Anti-Semitism, considering it a "moral abdication of Christendom".