Columb 'Collie' Thomas Knox (1899–1977) was a British writer and journalist active during
World War II and the 1950s. After a varied military career, he joined the
Daily Express
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before switching to the
Daily Mail
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, which promoted him as a star journalist.
In 1944 he married Gwendoline Frances Mary Mitchell, but they divorced in 1948.
For a time he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer
Peter Coats, and together with Sir
David Webster,
Robin Maugham,
Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that town's homosexual celebrities.
[Peter Dennis, Beccie Mannall, Linda Pointing, ''Daring Hearts: Lesbian and Gay Lives of 50s and 60s Brighton'', QueenSpark, Brighton 1992]
Books
*''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
British male journalists
1899 births
1977 deaths
Daily Mail journalists
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