Neville Cardus

Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly selfeducated, he became cricket correspondent of The Manchester Guardian in 1919, and that newspapers chief music critic in 1927, holding the two posts simultaneously until 1940. His contributions to these two distinct fields in the years before the Second World War established his reputation as one of the foremost critics of his generation.

Neville Cardus was born onApril 1888 in Rusholme, Manchester. Throughout his childhood and young adulthood he was known as Fred. There has been confusion over his birth date some sources give it asApril 1889, and Cardus himself hosted a dinner party onApril 1959 believing this to be his 70th birthday. His birth certificate, however, confirms the earlier date. Nevilles mother was Ada Cardus, one of several daughters of Robert and Ann Cardus of 4160Summer Place, Rusholme. OnJuly 1888, when the baby was three months old, Ada left her parents home and married John Frederick Newsome, a blacksmith. Apart from their shared forenames, there is no evidence that Newsome was Nevilles father, who is described in Carduss autobiographical works as a violinist in an orchestra. The Newsome marriage was shortlived, and within a few years Ada and Neville had returned to her parents home in Summer Place.

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