John Angus MacNab
| John Angus Macnab | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1906 London, England |
| Died | 1977 Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Rugby School |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Known for | Writer, translator and fascist politician |
| Home town | London Toledo, Spain |
| Political party |
British Union of Fascists National Socialist League |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Collins |
John Angus Macnab (1906–1977) was a British conservative politician who embraced Roman Catholicism under the influence of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who was a close associate of William Joyce, and who later became noted as a Perennialist writer on Medieval Spain and translator of Latin and Greek poetry.
Macnab was born in London, of New Zealand–Scots parents. The son of a well-known Harley Street eye doctor, MacNab was educated at Rugby School and the Christ Church, Oxford. Macnab converted to Catholicism, and he was also a noted mountaineer. A gifted translator, he chose, on graduation, to train as a schoolteacher.
During the 1930s Macnab shared a flat in London with William Joyce and the two built up a lifelong friendship that was to determine his political involvement. A witness at Joyce's second marriage, Macnab joined the British Union of Fascists and served as an official in the BUF's Propaganda Department, editing the party journal, Fascist Quarterly, and contributing a weekly, bitterly antisemitic column, 'Jolly Judah', to its newspaper, The Blackshirt. A loyal lieutenant to Joyce he complained directly to Oswald Mosley about Joyce's dismissal from the BUF in 1937 and was himself forcibly removed from the group as a result. Indeed, such was the bad feeling between Mosley and Joyce that the BUF leader threatened to physically attack Macnab for his complaints and ultimately had him ejected by his Blackshirts.
Following this incident Macnab joined Joyce and John Beckett in forming the unashamedly pro-Nazi National Socialist League. The group made little headway and he travelled with Joyce to Belgium just before the war where they met with Nazi agent Christian Bauer. Macnab joined Joyce and Bauer, a journalist with Der Angriff, in travelling to Berlin immediately afterwards. However whilst Joyce remained in Germany Macnab returned to the UK immediately after the outbreak of war, claiming that he would not be involved in aiding Britain's enemies.
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