Family
He married actress and jewellery-maker Gwendolen Daphne Bishop, née Bernhard-Smith, on 28 September 1910: they had a daughter, Undine, born 6 August 1911.
He married in 1927 Vera, née Rawnsley, a painter and poet (1888–1974). She had married previously Stanley Kennedy North, an artist, and Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938), a journalist; Bax's two stepsons by the second of those marriages were both killed in World War II.
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