Vivian de Sola Pinto

Vivian de Sola Pinto (9 December 1895 – 27 July 1969) was a British poet, literary critic and historian.

[1] He was a leading scholarly authority on D. H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence (Penguin Books) in the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover trial.

[2] He became a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, having fought in World War I alongside him, as his second-in-command, in France.

He is also known as the translator of France Prešeren's poetry into the English language.

He was the great-grandson of Rabbi David Aaron de Sola.