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Henry Thomas Muggeridge (26 June 1864 – 25 March 1942) was a British politician. He was the father of the author and journalist Malcolm Muggeridge and also Eric Muggeridge who is one of the founders of Plan International .
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). Malcolm's brother Eric was one of the founders of Plan International.
Malcolm's father, H. T. Muggeridge, who was to dominate his early life, was a small bearded man with a large frame, a twinkling eye and a rather bulbous nose which he passed on to his son.
H. T. Muggeridge was the overwhelming influence on Malcolm’s early life, and so it was only natural that Carlyle’s animadversions should greatly impress him, too. The third of five boys, Malcolm once claimed that Carlyle was the greatest influence on his literary style. I doubt that.
- Roger Kimball
Oct 11, 2020 · Though Muggeridge admired enormously his Fabian-socialist father, a sometime-MP with the Labour Party, H. T. Muggeridge (1864–1942), and was a favorite of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, his family...
Oct 11, 2020 · Though Muggeridge admired enormously his Fabian-socialist father, a sometime-MP with the Labour Party, H. T. Muggeridge (1864–1942), and was a favorite of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, his family...