St. John Legh Clowes (1907–1951) was a South African writer and director.
Biography
Clowes wrote the play Dear Murderer which was turned into a film.[1]
His parents - Captain Philip Cecil Clowes and Daphne Scholz, were married in Cape Town in 1903. (Daphne's sister Avice married actor/writer Roland Pertwee in 1911.) His grandfather, and namesake, was married to Elizabeth Caroline Bingham, the daughter of Denis Arthur Bingham, 3rd Baron Clanmorris.[2] His paternal aunt was the writer Elinor Mordaunt.