Columb 'Collie' Thomas Knox (1899–1977) was a British writer and journalist active during

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and the 1950s. 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, but they divorced in 1948. For a time he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer

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, and together with Sir David Webster,

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, 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 {{UK-journalist-stub