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Jan 22, 1857 Blackheath, England, United Kingdom Died on 14 Jan 1932 (aged 74)

British journalist and historian

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About Sidney Low

  • Sir Sidney James Mark Low (22 January 1857 – 14 January 1932) was a British journalist, historian, and essayist.Following education at King's College School, London he went to the University of Oxford.
  • Initially an undergraduate at Pembroke College, he moved to Balliol when he was awarded a Brakenby scholarship.
  • He received a first class degree in modern history in 1879.
  • He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1892.He was the editor of the St.
  • James's Gazette from 1888 to 1897, and was a leader writer and literary editor for the Standard.
  • He was the paper's special correspondent on a number of occasions, covering such events as the visit of the Price of Wales to India, the coronation of Haakon VII of Norway and the Hague Conference of 1907.
  • From 1901 to 1905 he was an alderman on the London County Council for the Conservative-backed Moderate Party.During the First World War he was a journalist in France and Italy, and edited the wireless service of the Ministry of Information.
  • He was knighted in 1918.Low was twice married.
  • In 1887 he married Elsie Davison, who died in 1921.
  • In 1924 his second marriage was to Ebba Cecilia Byström, of Stockholm.He spent his later years writing and lecturing in imperial and colonial history at King's College, London.
  • He died suddenly at his Kensington home in January 1932, aged 74.

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