Alan Payan Pryce-Jones

Lt-Col. Alan Payan Pryce-Jones TD (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2000) was a British book critic, writer, journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was notably editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1948 to 1959.

Background Pryce-Jones was the son of Henry Morris Pryce-Jones, CB, CVO, DSO, MC and Marion Vere Payan Dawnay. His grandfather was the merchant entrepreneur Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones of Montgomeryshire. Alan was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1934 he married Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer (2 May 1914 – 13 February 1953), a daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer, a French-born banker, and great-granddaughter of . In 1968 he married Mrs Mary Jean Kempner Thorne. who had been adopted as candidate at Gainsborough. However, his political career was cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.

He was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, 1950–61.

Publications The Spring Journey, 1931 People in the South, 1932 Beethoven, 1933 27 Poems, 1935 Private Opinion, 1936 Nelson, an opera, 1954 Vanity Fair, a musical play, (with Robin Miller and Julian Slade) 1962 The Bonus of Laughter (autobiography), 1987