Collie Knox
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Columb 'Collie' Thomas Knox (1899–1977) was a British writer and journalist active during World War II and the 1950s.[1] After a varied military career, he joined the Daily Express before switching to the Daily Mail, which promoted him as a star journalist.
In 1944 he married Gwendoline Frances Mary Mitchell,[2] but they divorced in 1948.
For a time he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer Peter Coats,[3] and together with Sir David Webster, Robin Maugham, Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that town's homosexual celebrities.[4]
Books
[edit]- Collie Knox Calling! A Selection of the famous Friday "Week-end" broadcasts now appearing in the Daily Mail, Chapman and Hall, (1937)
- Collie Knox Again, Chapman and Hall, (1938).
- It Might Have Been You, Chapman & Hall, (1939).
- Heroes All, Hodder & Stoughton, (1941).
- Atlantic Battle (1941).
- It had to be me , Methuen & Co., (1947).
- The Un-Beaten Track, Cassell and Company, (1944).
References
[edit]- ^ UK Hansard Vol. 393, 26 October 1943
- ^ Capt. Collie Knox, Sevenoaks Chronicle, 5 May 1944, p1
- ^ Peter Coats, Of Generals and Gardens, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.
- ^ Peter Dennis, Beccie Mannall, Linda Pointing, Daring Hearts: Lesbian and Gay Lives of 50s and 60s Brighton, QueenSpark, Brighton 1992