Background
He was born in Bristol, where his father James Macready Chute (1856-1912) ran the dynastic family theatre.
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Desmond Chute
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He was educated at Downside School, and the Slade Art School in London.
Career
His mother, Abigail Philomena née Hennessy (1855-1931), was a principal patron of the Guild in its early days. He started in 1921 to study for the priesthood, in Fribourg. He tutored Mary de Rachewiltz, Pound"s daughter with Olga Rudge, and supported both of them when Pound was arrested and deported by the United States army.
During the war, Desmond was interned at Bobbio, where he taught English to the local boys, and where he remained until the end of the war.
His radio play Poets in Paradise was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1955. He died and was buried in Rapallo, although a memorial designed by Gill stands in Canford Cemetery, Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol.
Some of his papers are held in the Eric Gill Collection at Chichester, and others by his relation, David Charles Manners.
