with musical matters of abiding interest". He financed and edited Music and Letters, a quarterly publication. The first edition contained a controversial article about Elgar by Bernard Shaw praising him at the expense of Hubert Parry, to which Elgar responded in the next issue strongly defending Parry. Fox Strangways recruited what The Times described as "a brilliant group of contributors [who] packed its pages with good writing and good sense". He retired as editor in 1936; the magazine continued under a series of editors including Eric Blom, Richard Capell, J.A. Westrup, Denis Arnold, Nigel Fortune, John Whenham and Tim Carter, and continues (at 2013) to be published, latterly by the Oxford University Press. He retired to Dinton, Wiltshire, where he died at the age of 88. He was unmarried. Books Advanced Passages for German Unseen Translation (1899) The Music of Hindostan (1914) with Steuart Wilson: Schubert's Songs Translated (1924) with Steuart Wilson: Schumann's Songs Translated (1929) with Maud Karpeles: Cecil Sharp – His Life and Work (1933) ed. Steuart Wilson: Music Observed (1936) – collected articles from The Observer Notes References 1859 births 1948 deaths English music critics British music critics Classical music critics English musicologists English translators