George Warrington Steevens
- George Warrington Steevens
George Warrington Steevens, usually credited as G.W. Steevens, (1869 – January 15, 1900), was a British journalist and writer.
Steevens was born in Sydenham, and educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1893 and also spent some time at Cambridge where he edited a weekly periodical.
As a journalist, he distinguished himself by his clearness of vision and vivid style, and was connected successively with the "National Observer", the "Pall Mall Gazette", and, from 1896, the "Daily Mail".
He was the most famous war correspondent of his time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Encyclopedia Memoir in Volume I (1900) of the "Memorial Edition" of Steeven's writings, edited by Street and Blackburn] .] . He utilised the articles which appeared in these and other publications in various books, such as "Monologues of the Dead" (1895), "The Land of the Dollar" (America) (1897), "With the Conquering Turk" (1897), "With Kitchener to Khartum", chronicling his attachment to British forces during the Mahdist War in the Sudan, "The Tragedy of Dreyfus" and his posthumous "From Cape Town to Ladysmith".
He was appointed by the Daily Mail as war correspondent to South Africa during the Boer War in 1899, where he died of enteric fever (now more commonly known as typhoid) on January 15, 1900 during the siege at Ladysmith.
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* [http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/6/3/3/16337/16337.htm Online text of "From Cape Town to Ladysmith"]
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