Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, CBE JP (8 February 1906 – 21 December 1988), was a British biographer.
Magnus-Allcroft was born in London, the son of Laurie Magnus and Dora Marian Spielmann, the grandson of the educationalist and Conservative politician Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet.
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: