James Macdonell

James Macdonell

James Macdonell (1841 – March 2, 1879), Scottish journalist, was born at Dyce, Aberdeen.

In 1858, after his father's death, he became clerk in a merchant's office. He began writing in the "Aberdeen Free Press"; in 1862 he was appointed to the staff of the "Daily Review" at Edinburgh, and at twenty-two he became editor of the "Northern Daily Express". In 1865 he went to London to accept a position on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, which he retained until 1875, being special correspondent in France in 1870 and 1871. In 1873 he became a leader-writer on "The Times." He died in London on the 2nd of March 1879. His posthumous "France since the First Empire", though incomplete, gave a clever and accurate account of the French politics of his time.

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