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Charles Acton (critic)
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Charles Acton (25 April 1914 – 22 April 1999) was the music critic at ''The Irish Times'' for thirty one years until his retirement in 1987. He was one of only two critics based outside Great Britain to be a member of The Critics' Circle.
==Early life==
He was born Charles Ball-Acton in the village of Iron Acton, in what is now South Gloucestershire in England.〔(Gareth Cox, "Charles Acton", ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' ) (retrieved 7 January 2011)〕 His family were from Anglo-Irish Protestant stock, having been landowners in County Wicklow since the reign of King Charles I. His branch of the family included among its more notable members, the historian, Lord Acton.〔 Charles Acton's father, Major Reginald Thomas Annesley Ball-Acton, was killed at Ypres in Belgium during World War I when Charles was only two. His mother, Isabel (née Richmond), remarried and lived until 1971. Acton was educated at Rugby School and later studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, although he left in 1936 without taking his degree.〔
In 1939 Acton came to Ireland, having inherited the family estate at Kilmacurragh, County Wicklow. Having tried unsuccessfully to run it as a country house hotel, he eventually sold the property and it is now part of the (National Botanic Gardens ). Meanwhile Acton undertook a series of diverse jobs for which he was ill-suited, including that of travelling salesman for ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Eventually, in 1955, he found his niche when he was appointed music critic at ''The Irish Times''.〔''The Irish Times'', "Eye-opening life of our 'charming, irksome' critic", 15 June 2010.〕
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