Charles Acton (critic)
Charles Acton (25 April 1914 – 22 April 1999) was the Music journalism, 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 was of Anglo-Irish Church of Ireland, Protestant stock, having been landowners in County Wicklow since the reign of Charles I of England, King Charles I. His branch of the family included among its more notable members, the historian, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Lord Acton. Charles Acton's father, Major Reginald ...
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Iron Acton
Iron Acton is a village, civil parish and former manor in South Gloucestershire, England. The village is about west of Yate and about northeast of the centre of Bristol. The B4058 road used to pass through the village but now by-passes it just to the north. The "iron" part of the toponym originates from the iron that used to be mined near the village. "Acton" is derived from the Old English for "farm (or village) with oak trees". Still today there is an oak wood in the village beside the River Frome. The civil parish also includes the smaller villages of Latteridge and Engine Common. Manor The manor of Iron Acton was held by the ''de Acton'' family, which took its name from the manor, and which expired in the male line on the death of John IV de Acton in 1362. His heir to Iron Acton became the descendant of his aunt Matilda (or Maud) de Acton, wife of Nicholas Poyntz (d.1311), feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset. His descendants remained seated at Iron Acton for ma ...
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