Thomas Cox Meech was an English journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, author

Author

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 and lawyer

Lawyer

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Born in Beaminster

Beaminster

Beaminster is a small town and civil parish in the West Dorset district of Dorset in South West England, at the head of the valley of the River Brit. Beaminster is south of Bristol, west of Bournemouth, east of Exeter and northwest of the county town of Dorchester...

 and educated at Ardingly College

Ardingly College

Ardingly College is a selective independent co-educational boarding and day school, founded in 1858 by Canon Nathaniel Woodard, included in the Tatler list of top public schools. The college is located in the village of Ardingly near Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, having moved to its present...

, Meech was initially intent on becoming a lawyer but instead turned to journalism, becoming editor of Ayrshire Post

Ayrshire Post

The Ayrshire Post is a weekly Scottish local newspaper serving the community of South Ayrshire with local news, issues and sports coverage...

, Lancashire Daily Post and the Northern Echo. He published his first novel Only a Collier in 1890. Other books include biographies of Thomas Burt

Thomas Burt

Thomas Burt PC was a British trade unionist and one of the first working-class Members of Parliament.-Career:...

 and William McKinley

William McKinley

William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

 and a history of the Great Britain

Great Britain

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 and Ireland

Ireland

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 called This Generation (1927-28). With Ladbroke Black

Ladbroke Black

Ladbroke Lionel Day Black was an English journalist and author who wrote mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories often under pseudonyms such as Lionel Day, Lewis Jackson and Paul Urquhart....

 he wrote several books under the pen name Paul Urquhart

Paul Urquhart

Paul Urquhart was the pen name for paperbacks used initially by collaboration between Ladbroke Black and Thomas Meech and later by Black alone. Seven books were published between 1906 and 1918 by Ward Lock & Co...

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External links

• Bear Alley: Paul Urquhart (Ladbroke Black & Thomas Meech) at blogspot.com