Cecil Roberts

This article is about the journalist and novelist. For the president of the United Mine Workers of America, see Cecil Roberts (labor unionist).

Cecil Edric Mornington Roberts (18 May 1892 Nottingham 20 December 1976) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist.

Roberts grew up in Nottingham[1] and worked as a journalist on the Liverpool Post during World War I, first as literary editor and then as a war correspondent. From 1920 for five years he edited the Nottingham Journal. In 1922 he stood for Parliament for the Liberal Party.

During World War II Roberts worked for Lord Halifax, who was British Ambassador to the United States.

He donated his papers to Churchill College, Cambridge in 1975.[2]

Works

(*)=The "Pilgrim Cottage" books (@)=The "Inside Europe" novels

References

  1. Gone Rambling; p. 9
  2. The Papers of Cecil Roberts, Accessed November 12, 2014
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