birth_date: 1892-07-26 00:00:00
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name: H.V. Morton
about: Henry Canova Vollam (H. V.) Morton, FRSL, was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, England, best known for his prolific and popular books on Britain and the Holy Land. He first achieved fame in 1923 when, while working for the Daily Express, he scooped the official Times correspondent during the coverage of the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamon by Howard Carter in Egypt.In the late 1940s he moved to South Africa, settling near Cape Town in Somerset West and became a South African citizen.
death_date: 1979-06-18 00:00:00