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STEEVENS, GEORGE WARRINGTON (1869-1900)

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STEEVENS, See also:GEORGE See also:WARRINGTON (1869-1900) , See also:English journalist, was See also:born at See also:Sydenham, near See also:London, on the loth of See also:December 1869, and was educated at the See also:City of London School and Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was a See also:scholar. He first began to write in undergraduate See also:periodicals. In 1893 he was elected a See also:fellow of See also:Pembroke College, Oxford, and in the same See also:year spent some See also:time at See also:Cambridge, editing a weekly periodical, the Cambridge Observer, and becoming a contributor to the See also:National Observer, then edited by Mr W. E. See also:Henley. He then married and went to London, and joined the See also:staff of the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette, contributing also to the New See also:Review and See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine. Some of his articles were reprinted in Monologues of the Dead. In 1896 he joined the staff of the London Daily See also:Mail, then just started, and went on various See also:special See also:missions for that See also:paper, which resulted in more than one See also:series of articles, afterwards turned into books. In this way he published The See also:Land of the See also:Dollar (1897), With the Conquering Turk (1897), See also:Egypt in 1898, and With See also:Kitchener to Khartoum (1899). In See also:September 1899 he went to See also:South See also:Africa and joined See also:Sir George See also:White's force in See also:Natal as See also:war-correspondent, being subsequently besieged in See also:Ladysmith. He died during the See also:siege, of enteric See also:fever, on the 15th of See also:January 'coo. The articles he had sent See also:home from South Africa were published posthumously in a See also:volume called From Capetown to Ladysmith, Steevens had a remarkable See also:gift of seizing the salient facts and See also:principal characteristics in anything he wished to describe, and putting them in a vivid and readable way.

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early See also:death removed an interesting See also:personality in English journalism.

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