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Ian Colvin
British journalist and biographer (1877-1938) · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Died at 60
Ian Duncan Colvin was a British journalist and historian. Colvin worked in India for the Allahabad Pioneer, in South Africa for the Cape Times, and United Kingdom for The Morning Post, where he was the paperleader-writer. He wrote two volumes on the history of South Africa, "South Africa" and "The Cape of Adventure".
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A typical day, 30 days to 21 June 2026
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He released satirical collections Aesop in Politics, Party Whips: by a Tory (1912) and Intercepted Letters (1913). In 1915, he published the book The Germans in England, 1066-1598, which was followed by The Unseen Hand in English History (1917). Next was a volume of adaptations from Chinese poetry After the Chinese (1927), the libretto of an opera. The Leper's Flute (1926), and a biography of General Reginald Dyer (1929). Colvin also completed the three volumes on the life of the Irish Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson started by Edward Marjoribanks.
