James Garvin
Born in
Birmingham,
West Midlands
Born on 12th of April
1868
Died on 23rd of January
1947
Born 1868. Died 1947 - English journalist.
Editor of the Observer from 1908 to 1942. Edited the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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