Frank Morton (journalist), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank Morton (journalist)

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 12-May-1869

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1923

Profession: poet, journalist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Frank Morton (journalist)

  • Frank Morton (12 May 1869 – 15 December 1923) was a journalist and poet, active in Australia. Morton was born at Bromley, Kent, England, the son of James Morton, a plumber, and his wife Rhoda, née Hookham.
  • He was educated at a private school at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where he obtained a good grounding in the classics and French. At 16 years of age Morton migrated to Sydney with his family.
  • Early in 1889 he obtained work as a seaman and sailed in the Conqueror for America but left the ship at Hong Kong.
  • He was a teacher there for a few months, and at the end of the year obtained work on The Straits Times.
  • In 1892 he went to Calcutta and did editorial work on the Englishman. In 1894 he returned to Australia.
  • He worked for various papers in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania for about 10 years before joining the staff of the Otago Daily Times in 1905.
  • His most remarkable work in New Zealand, however, was his editing of a monthly journal, the Triad, of which he frequently wrote the greater part himself under various pen-names.
  • In 1908 he published Laughter and Tears, Verses of a Journalist, at Wellington, and in 1909 The Angel of the Earthquake, prose sketches with a poem.
  • The Yacht of Dreams, a novel, was published in 1911. Morton returned to Australia about 1914 and contributed a significant amount of journalism, both prose and verse, to the Triad, The Bulletin, the Lone Hand, and others.
  • His Verses for Marjorie and Some Others was published in September 1916, followed by The Secret Spring (1919), and Man and the Devil, a Book of Shame and Pity (1922).
  • He was a friend of David McKee Wright.
  • He lived at Manly, New South Wales, for some years and died of acute nephritis on 15 December 1923.
  • In Singapore in 1891 he had married Louise Holloway, who survived him with three sons and two daughters.
  • -Terence, Beaumont James, Marjorie and Enid.
  • Marjorie's third son was Ian Ross, television news presenter.
  • Beaumont's grandson Glenn Myles is also a journalist. Morton was an excellent journalist, short story writer, and critic.
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  • Archibald regarded Morton as one of three journalists who "lifted journalism to the plane of literature".
  • About six of his poems have been included in anthologies.

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