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Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine ''Horizon'' (1940–49) and wrote ''Enemies of Promise'' (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth. ==Early life== Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, the only child of Major Matthew William Kemble Connolly (1872–1947), an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, by his Anglo-Irish wife, Muriel Maud Vernon, daughter of Colonel Edward Vernon (1838–1913) J.P., D.L., of Clontarf Castle, Co. Dublin. His parents had met while his father was serving in Ireland, and his father's next posting was to South Africa.〔Jeremy Lewis, ''Cyril Connolly: A Life'', Jonathan Cape, 1997.〕 Connolly's father was also a malacologist and mineral collector of some reputation and collected many samples in Africa.〔Obituary "Matthew William Kemble Connolly 1872–1947", ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'', Volume 28, Number 1.〕 Cyril Connolly's childhood days were spent with his father in South Africa, with his mother's family at Clontarf Castle, and with his paternal grandmother in Bath and other parts of England.〔Cyril Connolly, ''Enemies of Promise'', Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1938.〕 Connolly was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, where he enjoyed the company of George Orwell and Cecil Beaton. He was a favourite of the formidable Mrs Wilkes but was later to criticise the "character-building" ethos of the school. He wrote "Orwell proved to me that there existed an alternative to character, Intelligence. Beaton showed me another, Sensibility."〔 Connolly won the Harrow History Prize, pushing Orwell into second place, and the English prize leaving Orwell with Classics.〔''St Cyprian's Chronicle'', 1916.〕 He then won a scholarship to Eton a year after Orwell.
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