- Herbert Wrigley Wilson
Herbert Wrigley Wilson (
1866 -12 July 1940 ), often known only by his initials H. W. Wilson, was a Britishjournalist and naval historian.He was the eldest son of the Reverend George Edwin Wilson (Vicar of St. John's,
Huddersfield ,West Yorkshire , and later ofGreat Missenden ,Buckinghamshire ) and, like three of his five brothers, became a journalist. According to the memoires of his brother G. H. Wilson, editor of the "Cape Times ", H. W. Wilson was "chief leader writer" and assistant editor of the "Daily Mail " from 1898 until his death in 1940.Aside from his newspaper work, Wilson was also the author or co-author of numerous books about naval and
military history :*"Battleships in Action" (1896)
*"The Protection of Our Commerce in War" (1896)
*"Ironclads in Acton" (1897)
*"The Forthcoming Naval Review and It's Predecessors" (1897)
*"The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present" (7 vols., 1897-1903)
*"Nelson and His Times" (1898)
*"When War Breaks Out" (1898)
*"The Growth of the World's Armaments" (1898)
*"The Naval Situation with Textual Tables" (1899)
*"Adam Duncan (1731-1804)" (1899)
*"The Downfall of Spain" (1900)
*"With the Flag to Pretoria" (1900-01)
*"After Pretoria" (1902)
*"New Light on Napoleon's Invasion Projects" (1902)
*"Mr. Chamberlain's New Policy" (1903)
*"Japan's Fight for Freedom" (1905)
*"The Invasion of 1910 " (1906)
*"The Great War" (13 vols., 1914-19)
*"Convicted out of Her Own Mouth: The Record of German Crimes" (1917)
*"Hush or the Hydrophone Service" (1920)
*"Northcliffe House" (1927)
*"The War Guilt" (1928)
*"His Majesty the King" (1935)References
Wilson, George Hough, "Gone Down the Years", George Allen Unwin Ltd. (1947)
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