Hector Bolitho

Henry Hector Bolitho was born in 1897, in Auckland, New Zealand. From 1915 he worked as a reporter for a New Zealand newspaper for seven years before leaving for England where he published his first novel. Before the Second World War he travelled throughout Europe, Africa, North America and Australia. During the war, from 1939-1945, he served as a squadron leader with the RAF and was the editor of the RAF journal. After the war, from 1947-49, Bolitho conducted lecture tours in the United States...See more

Henry Hector Bolitho was born in 1897, in Auckland, New Zealand. From 1915 he worked as a reporter for a New Zealand newspaper for seven years before leaving for England where he published his first novel. Before the Second World War he travelled throughout Europe, Africa, North America and Australia. During the war, from 1939-1945, he served as a squadron leader with the RAF and was the editor of the RAF journal. After the war, from 1947-49, Bolitho conducted lecture tours in the United States of America. Bolitho wrote widely on historical subjects, most notably on the royal family, in Albert the Good and the Victorian Reign (1932), The Reign of Queen Victoria (1948), and Albert, Prince Consort (1964). One of his early novels, Judith Silver, won critical acclaim in 1929. Henry Bolitho died in England on 12 September 1974. See less