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Cockburn, Claud, 1904-1981

LC control no.n 50032628
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6005.O15
Personal name headingCockburn, Claud, 1904-1981
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Variant(s)Cockburn, Francis Claud, 1904-1981
See alsoFor works of this author written under other names, search also under: Helvick, James, 1904-1981 Pitcairn, Frank
Helvick, James, 1904-1981
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Pitcairn, Frank
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Associated countryChina Great Britain Ireland
LocatedYoughal (Cork, Ireland)
Birth date1904-04-12
Death date1981-12-15
Place of birthBeijing (China)
Place of deathCork (Ireland)
Profession or occupationJournalists
Found inHis In time of trouble, 1956.
His Cockburn in Spain, 1986: p. 11 (Claud Cockburn's death in 1981)
Dict. of nat. biog., 1981-1985 (Cockburn, (Francis) Claud; 1904-1981; author and journalist; b. at Brit. embassy in Peking, Apr. 12, 1904; educ. in Britain; reported from U.S., 1929-1932; reported for Daily worker on Spanish Civil War, using pseud. Frank Pitcairn; d. Dec. 15, 1981 in Cork)
Wikipedia, 16 October 2017 (Claud Cockburn; Francis Claud Cockburn 12 April 1904-15 December 1981) was an Anglo-Scots journalist; lived at Brook Lodge, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland; was born in Peking (present-day Beijing), China, on 12 April 1904; was educated at Berkhamsted School, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, and Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts; became a journalist with the Times ... started his own newsletter The Week; Under the name Frank Pitcairn, Cockburn contributed to the British communist newspaper, the Daily Worker; Among his novels were Beat the Devil (originally under the pseudonym James Helvick), The horses, Ballantyne's folly and Jericho Road)
Associated languageeng