Jonah Barrington was the pseudonym of Cyril Carr Dalmaine (20 August 1904 – 21 September 1986) the radio critic of the Daily Express, a British newspaper, during the Second World War. He is especially known as being the person who first used the term " Lord Haw-Haw" to describe a German radio broadcaster: [1]
He speaks English of the haw-haw, damn-it-get-out-of-my-way variety, and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation. [2]
Dalmaine studied at Eastbourne College and graduated from the Royal College of Music.
Dalmaine was music master at Uppington School and chorus master to the BBC. He composed chamber music, [3] and he transcribed cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach for piano. [4]
Jonah Barrington was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days. He was responsible for the "discovery" of the then-deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente. At a time when the great Swedish tenor Jussi Björling's recording of " Nessun dorma" was popular, Barrington played a version by Valente which, he said, was the best he had ever heard. It was instantly popular, and Valente enjoyed a posthumous vogue.
Usually, the inventor of popular nicknames is unidentifiable, but the 'onlie begetter' of Lord Haw-Haw was undoubtedly Mr Jonah Barrington, then of the Daily Express…
Jonah Barrington was the pseudonym of Cyril Carr Dalmaine (20 August 1904 – 21 September 1986) the radio critic of the Daily Express, a British newspaper, during the Second World War. He is especially known as being the person who first used the term " Lord Haw-Haw" to describe a German radio broadcaster: [1]
He speaks English of the haw-haw, damn-it-get-out-of-my-way variety, and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation. [2]
Dalmaine studied at Eastbourne College and graduated from the Royal College of Music.
Dalmaine was music master at Uppington School and chorus master to the BBC. He composed chamber music, [3] and he transcribed cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach for piano. [4]
Jonah Barrington was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days. He was responsible for the "discovery" of the then-deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente. At a time when the great Swedish tenor Jussi Björling's recording of " Nessun dorma" was popular, Barrington played a version by Valente which, he said, was the best he had ever heard. It was instantly popular, and Valente enjoyed a posthumous vogue.
Usually, the inventor of popular nicknames is unidentifiable, but the 'onlie begetter' of Lord Haw-Haw was undoubtedly Mr Jonah Barrington, then of the Daily Express…