Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, (c. 1867–1932) was a British journalist, statistician and author.

Journalism

Kitchin was the publisher of ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

Financial and Commercial Supplement'' from 1904 to 1908 and was an internationally recognised statistician in the field of nutrition. In 1918, Kitchin edited the '' Board of Trade Journal'' and in 1925, he co-wrote the autobiography of managing director of ''The Times'', Charles Frederic Moberly Bell: ''Moberly Bell and his Times''. Kitchin also wrote a number of books about the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...

: ''The Secret of the Navy; What It Is and What We Owe to It'' (1918) and ''The Silent Watchers; England's Navy During the Great War; What It Is, and What We Owe to It''. (1918)

Novels

Kitchin wrote ''The Diversions of Dawson: a novel'' using his own name. Under the pseudonym of Bennet Copplestone, he wrote a number of adventures including ''The Lost Naval Papers'' (1917), ''The Last of the Grenvilles'' (1919), ''Madame Gilbert's Cannibal'' (1920), ''The Treasure of Golden Cap'' (1922) and ''Dead Men's Tales'' (1926) Kitchin set many of his stories in and around North

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

Lundy Island Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It was a micronation from 1925–1969. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon. About long and wide, Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, frequently chang ...

and the

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...

town of

Bridport Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre. On the coast and wit ...

.Literary Bridport
''Dorset Life''; accessed 12 March 2015 The family of

Sir Richard Grenville Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591), also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently ...

features heavily in his writing.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kitchin, Frederick Harcourt British male journalists British statisticians The Times people 20th-century British novelists 1867 births 1932 deaths British male novelists 20th-century British male writers