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

Collie Knox

For a time he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer Peter Coats, and together with Sir David Webster, Robin Maugham, Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that town's homosexual celebrities.

Collie Knox

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).

Collie Knox

References

British male journalists

1899 births

1977 deaths

Daily Mail journalists