George Herbert Mair
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(8 May 1887 – 2 January 1926) was a British
journalist and
civil servant
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.
Mair was the son of a
Royal Navy surgeon
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. He was educated at
Aberdeen Grammar School, the
University of Aberdeen,
Christ Church, Oxford
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, and the
Sorbonne. In 1909 he got a job as
leader writer, drama critic and special correspondent on the ''
Manchester Guardian
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'', and was appointed political correspondent and literary editor in London in 1911. He became assistant editor of the ''
Daily Chronicle'' in 1914.
In 1914 he was adopted as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate by
Glasgow Central Liberal Party to contest the Unionist seat at the General Election anticipated for 1914/15.
On the outbreak of the
First World War, Mair attempted to join the armed forces, but was decreed medically unfit and instead joined the
Foreign Office
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, becoming head of the Department of Information. When the
Ministry of Information was formed in 1918, he became Assistant Secretary. He attended the
Versailles Conference as Director of the Press Section of the British Delegation, and for this work he was appointed
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
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(CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours.
He was appointed Assistant Director of the
League of Nations Secretariat in
Geneva, and then returned to
London as head of the League of Nations office in that city. He later returned to journalism as drama critic for the ''
Evening Standard''.
Mair married the
Irish actress
Maire O'Neill (1885–1952) in 1911. He died in 1926 at the age of 39.
Footnotes
References
*Obituary, ''
The Times'', 4 January 1926
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1887 births
1926 deaths
People educated at Aberdeen Grammar School
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
University of Paris alumni
British male journalists
British critics
Civil servants in the Foreign Office
Civil servants in the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
League of Nations people
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George