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See also:GEORGE See also:WARRINGTON See also:STEEVENS (1869-1900)
, See also:English journalist, was See also:born at See also:Sydenham, near See also:London, on the loth of See also:December 1869, and was educated at the See also:City of London School and Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was a See also:scholar
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He first began to write in undergraduate See also:periodicals
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In 1893 he was elected a See also:fellow of See also:Pembroke College, Oxford, and in the same See also:year spent some See also:time at See also:Cambridge, editing a weekly periodical, the Cambridge Observer, and becoming a contributor to the See also:National Observer, then edited by Mr W
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E
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See also:Henley
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He then married and went to London, and joined the See also:staff of the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette, contributing also to the New See also:Review and See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine
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Some of his articles were reprinted in Monologues of the Dead
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In 1896 he joined the staff of the London Daily See also:Mail, then just started, and went on various See also:special See also:missions for that See also:paper, which resulted in more than one See also:series of articles, afterwards turned into books
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In this way he published The See also:Land of the See also:Dollar (1897), With the Conquering Turk (1897), See also:Egypt in 1898, and With See also:Kitchener to Khartoum (1899)
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In See also:September 1899 he went to See also:South See also:Africa and joined See also:Sir See also:George See also: His See also:early See also:death removed an interesting See also:personality in English journalism . |
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