Henry Nevinson

Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856 – 1941) was a British campaigning journalist. He was known for his reporting on the Second Boer War, and slavery in Angola in 1904-1905.^[1]

He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage, and a war correspondent of World War I, being wounded at Gallipoli.^[2]

Family

He married Margaret Nevinson; the artist Christopher Nevinson was their son.

References

• Angela V. John (2006), War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson
• Angela John's illustrated essay on Nevinson's book of East End short stories, 'Neighbours of Ours'

Notes

1. ^ "NEVINSON, H. W.". Who's Who, vol. 59: p. 1295. 1907. http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1295. 
2. ^ See Nevinson's Fire of Life pp.304-318 for his time at the Dardanelles; he doesn't mention his own wound.

External links

• Page at Spartacus
• Works by Henry Nevinson at Project Gutenberg