Claud Gordon Glover (7 June 1908 – 1 March 1975) was a British writer, particularly for radio, as well as some novels.
Early life Glover was born in Edinburgh in 1908, the son of William Gordon Glover (1879-1945), an engineer, and his wife Florence Edith (née Hardie) (1878-1956). His grandfather, Thomas Craigie Glover, was an Indian railway contractor. An aunt, Ann Liston Glover, married Lt-Gen Sir Frederick McCracken.
Career Glover was a BBC radio producer and presenter. One of his last radio broadcasts was an episode of The Countryside in Summer, broadcast in 1974.
He wrote articles for The Country Gentleman magazine under the pen name of Julian Grey. He wrote short stories and articles for various publications, including the Australian Woman's Mirror, Lilliput,Lilliput, Vol 24, No 6, Issue no 144, June 1949.Lilliput, Vol 28, No 3, Issue no 165, March 1951. the Radio Times,Byrne, Paula, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, (2021: William Collins), p 335. and the Wireless Weekly.
His first two novels were published by Geoffrey Bles, a London publisher with a reputation for spotting new talent. His son, Julian, described him as a "drunken journalist … hopeless with women".Roisman Cooper, Barbara, "Julian Glover CBE" in Great Britons of Stage and Screen: In Conversation, (2015: Rowman & Littlefield), p 149.
Works Cocktails at Six, (1934: Geoffrey Bles) Week-End in Town, (1934: Geoffrey Bles) Bolero. A novel, (1936: Cassell & Co) Family Gathering. A novel, (1937: Cassell & Co) Parish pump (by C. Gordon Glover as Julian Grey), (1975: Roundtree Press) Tom Forrest's country calendar (compiled by Charles Lefeaux from the original material written for The Archers by C. Gordon Glover and Phil Drabble), (1978: BBC)
Personal life Glover married the journalist and radio presenter Honor Wyatt (1910–98) in 1931Kensington District Registry, September 1931 quarter, Vol 1a page 428. at St Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens. Before the Spanish Civil War, they lived in Spain for a while, where they befriended the poet Robert Graves and his lover Laura Riding.Byrne, Paula, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, (2021: William Collins), p 322. They had two children, Prue and the actor Julian. They separated in 1939; Glover then had a brief relationship with Honor's friend, the future novelist Barbara Pym, in 1942 which he broke off abruptly and which traumatised Pym. It prompted Pym to join the WrensByrne, Paula, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, (2021: William Collins), p 343. and, when Glover died in 1975, she burnt her diary for 1942.Byrne, Paula, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, (2021: William Collins), p 563.
He married, secondly, in 1946 the children's author Modwena Margaret Sedgwick (1916–96),Marylebone District Registry, March 1946 quarter, Vol 1a page 1186. who had previously been married to John Allen, at the time an actor but subsequently a noted theatre administrator.
He died in 1975, aged 66.
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