Bertram Fletcher Robinson

Bertram Fletcher Robinson
Bertram Fletcher Robinson pictured during his tenure as 'Day Editor' of the Daily Express newspaper (c. 1901)
Born(1870-08-22)22 August 1870
Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England
Died21 January 1907(1907-01-21) (aged 36)
Belgravia, London, England
Resting placeSt. Andrew's Church, Ipplepen, Devon, England
EducationNewton Abbot Proprietary college
Alma materJesus College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Sportsman, journalist, author, editor, liberal unionist party activist, barrister
SpouseGladys Hill Morris
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Bertram Fletcher Robinson (22 August 1870 – 21 January 1907) was an English sportsman,[1] journalist, editor, author and Liberal Unionist Party activist.[2] During his life-time, he wrote at least three hundred items, including a series of short stories that feature a detective called 'Addington Peace'.[3] Following his untimely death at the age of just 36 years, speculation grew that Robinson was the victim of a curse bestowed upon him by an Egyptian antiquity at the British Museum, which he had researched whilst working as a journalist for a British newspaper.[4] However, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his literary collaborations with his friends and fellow Crimes Club members, Arthur Conan Doyle,[5] P. G. Wodehouse[6] and Max Pemberton.[7]

  1. ^ "Fletcher Robinson & Rugby". BFRonline.BIZ. Archived from the original on 31 August 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870–1907)". BFRonline.BIZ. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  3. ^ "B. Fletcher Robinson Bibliography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  4. ^ "British Museum Tours: A Brief Look At The Unlucky Mummy". British Museum. 23 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles". History Today.
  6. ^ Thorpe, Vanessa (25 July 2009). "Earliest Wodehouse satires discovered". The Observer.
  7. ^ Pemberton, Max. Sixty Years Ago and After, Internet Archive. Retrieved on 9 February 2024. In this 1936 autobiography, which was published by (Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.), Pemberton provides details about his relationship with both Robinson and his uncle, Sir John Richard Robinson around the turn of the 20th century (pp.124–126).