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Cyril Connolly


 

Cyril Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English man of letters. He was born in Coventry in Warwickshire to a wealthy family of Anglo-Irish extraction. He was educated at St Cyprian's School and Eton College, at both of which he was an exact contemporary of George Orwell, who remained a life-long friend. Connolly later attended Balliol College, Oxford.

Trivia

Cyril Connolly is mentioned at the end of the Monty Python song "Eric the Half a Bee".

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