James Bone (16 May 1872 – 23 November 1962) John Beavan, "Bone, James (1872–1962)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 13 Feb 2013 was a British

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, most notably London correspondent for the '' Manchester Guardian'' for 33 years. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1947. "James Bone, journalist", Brown, Ivor, The Observer (1901- 2003); 25 Nov 1962; pg. 7 "A Scotsman's Log: Honourable Comparisons", The Scotsman (1921-1950); 12 Jun 1947; pg. 4 He was also the primary author of 4 travel books, one about Glasgow, one about Edinburgh and two about London. James Bone Correspondence https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/58b49e5b-7c97-3601-99ef-e8a2978772b2 Robert Service, A Biography by Carl F. Klinck Scotland's People, 1881 Census (LDS) James R.C.Bone

Family

Born in

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, Bone's parents were journalist David Drummond Bone (1851–1911)The Late Mr David D. Bone.
The Scottish Referee, 27 October 1911. Scan via London Hearts Supporters Club and his wife, Elizabeth Millar Crawford (1847–1886). His brothers included Sir

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, the artist, and Captain Sir David Bone, author and mariner. He married Anne McGavigan in 1903; they had no children.

Early life

Bone was a boyhood friend of 'Bard of the Yukon',

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, who also was brought up in Glasgow's West End, in Roxburgh Street, while Bone lived close by in Buckingham Terrace.

Career

After leaving school aged 14, Bone worked briefly for the Laird Line, which operated passenger and trade routes between Scotland and Ireland, before joining his father at the

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. When this newspaper was taken over in 1901, he left and temporarily pursued a freelance career, writing reports for the

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, Daily Record, and the Glasgow Evening Times. Also in 1901, to coincide with the

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, Bone's first book, Glasgow in 1901, was published under the pseudonym, James Hamilton Muir, a name formed from his own name and those of his co-author and friend, Archibald Hamilton Charteris, the nephew of Scottish theologian, Archibald Charteris., and his brother, the book's illustrator, Muirhead Bone. In 1902 he started work at the London office of the '' Manchester Guardian'', where in 1912, he became the London correspondent, writing a regular column, his London Letter, in which he related events from London in an informal way. The 3 other books by Bone are : The London Perambulator (1925), illustrated by Muirhead Bone, The Perambulator in Edinburgh (1926), illustrated by E.S.Lumsden, and London Echoing (1948), illustrated by Muirhead Bone. Bone retired in 1945.

Later life

His wife died in 1950, but Bone lived to see his 90th birthday in 1962, receiving birthday messages from Queen

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, President

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, and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He died on 23 November 1962.

References

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