biography
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| lived:
| (1863–1950)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was editor of Chums (1892–3) and of Cassell's Magazine (1894–1906). He wrote reviews and plays, and produced a succession of historical romances, including Impregnable City (1895) and The Mad King Dies (1928). He founded the London School of Journalism, and in 1920 became a director of Northcliffe newspapers, two years later publishing a biography of Lord Northcliffe. |
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