death_place death_date ethnicity birth_date spouse birthname article_title education name occupation
new forest , hampshire , england 23 november 1912 ulster scot 7 august 1866 none william flavelle monypeny william flavelle monypenny
 trinity college , dublin balliol college , oxford william flavelle monypenny journalist , editor and author
william flavelle monypenny

william flavelle monypenny -lrb- 7 august 1866 -- 23 november 1912 -rrb- was a british journalist and editor who was the biographer of benjamin disraeli .
monypenny was the second son of an ulster family of scottish descent .
his father , william monypeny of ballyworkan , was a small landowner .
monypenny himself spelled his surname monypeny until 1898 .
he attended the royal school dungannon and trinity college , dublin , where he distinguished himself in mathematics .
from there he attended balliol college , oxford , but left after a year due to ill health .
monypenny received his start in journalism as a contributor to `` the spectator '' .
he joined the staff of `` the times '' in 1893 , where he was an assistant to the editor , george earle buckle .
in early 1899 , he accepted an offer to edit the johannesburg `` star '' , then a uitlander publication in the transvaal republic .
monypenny was at the forefront in the subsequent political disputes leading up to the second boer war , and was forced to flee to cape colony prior to the outbreak of hostilities when a warrant of high treason was taken out against him .
during the war , he served in the imperial light horse and saw combat in natal .
he was also was a member of the force trapped in ladysmith during its besiegement by the boers , which adversely affected his health .
monypenny subsequently served in lord milner 's administration , where he was the director of civil supplies and participated in the rehabilitation of refugees after the annexation of the transvaal .
after the war , monypenny resumed the editorship of the `` star '' , using it to support milner 's policies .
he was unable to accept the emerging practice of importing chinese labor , however , and resigned from the editorship in 1903 .
upon his return to london , he resumed working for `` the times '' , and was appointed a director of the times publishing company in 1908 .
it was his work with `` the times '' which led the directors to offer to him the opportunity to write the definitive biography of the former prime minister benjamin disraeli , using the papers disraeli had bequeathed to his former secretary lord rowton .
though monypenny 's relative obscurity led some to question his selection , the first volume was critically praised upon his publication in october 1910 .
monypenny only completed one more volume before dying of heart failure in 1912 ; the project was completed by george earle buckle , who wrote an additional four volumes .
