LC control no. | n 50032628 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR6005.O15 |
Personal name heading | Cockburn, Claud, 1904-1981 |
Variant(s) | Cockburn, Francis Claud, 1904-1981 |
See also | For works of this author written under other names, search also under: Helvick, James, 1904-1981 Pitcairn, Frank Helvick, James, 1904-1981 Pitcairn, Frank |
Associated country | China Great Britain Ireland |
Located | Youghal (Cork, Ireland) |
Birth date | 1904-04-12 |
Death date | 1981-12-15 |
Place of birth | Beijing (China) |
Place of death | Cork (Ireland) |
Profession or occupation | Journalists |
Found in | His 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 language | eng |