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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]
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verification. (September 2022) |
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]