Henry Vollam Morton
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Henry Vollam ("H. V.") Morton (1892–18 June, 1979) was a journalist and travel writer from Birmingham, England.
Career
He entered journalism on the staff of the Birmingham Gazette and Express in 1910, and became its Assistant Editor in 1912.
Morton was sub-editor of the London- based national newspaper The Daily Mail from 1913-1914, and served in the Warwickshire Yeomanry during WWI. After that, he worked for the (London) Evening Standard from 1919 and the Daily Express from 1921. From 1931 - 1942, he was "special writer" at the Daily Herald. He was the editor of Empire Magazine (London) in 1913.
Morton's first published work appeared in 1925. His early writing tended to focus on the U.K., especially London (see, for example, "The Ghosts Of London", 1939). His work from 1955 to 1969 focused on his impressions of Italy.
Honours
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature (FRSL). Greece made him a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in 1937 and he was awarded the Italian Cavaliere, Order of Merit in 1965. He retired to South Africa and died there, aged 87.
Bibliography
- The Heart of London (1925)
- The London Year (1926)
- London (1926)
- The Spell of London (1926)
- The Nights of London (1926)
- In Search of England (1927)
- The Call of England (1928)
- In Search of Scotland (1929)
- In Search of Ireland (1930)
- In Search of Wales (1932)
- Blues Days at Sea (1932)
- In Scotland Again (1933)
- In The Steps of the Master (1934)
- Our Fellow Men (1936)
- Ghosts of London (1939)
- Women of the Bible (1940)
- H. V Morton's London (1941)
- Middle East (1941)
- I, James Blunt (1942)
- I Saw Two Englands (1942)
- Atlantic Meeting (1943)
- In Search of South Africa (1948)
- In Search of London (1951)
- In The Steps of Jesus (1953)
- Coronation in Wonderful Pictures (1953; co-authored)
- A Stranger in Spain (1954)
- A Traveller in Rome (1957)
- This is Rome (1960)
- The Holy Land (1961)
- A Tourist in Italy (1964)
- The Waters of Rome (1966)
- A Traveller in Southern Italy (1969)
- H. V. Morton's England (1975; edited by Patricia Howard)
- The Splendour of Scotland (1976)
- In Search of the Holy Land
- Magic of Ireland
- In London
- In London Again