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Reginald Pound

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[[File:Reginald-Pound-Illustrated-London-News.png|thumb|upright|alt=Middle aged white man, clean shaven, with full head of dark hair. He is in lounge suit and white shirt and wears a necktie |Pound in 1952]]
'''Reginald Pound''' (11 November 1894 – 20 May 1991) was an English journalist and biographer. He began contributing to newspapers and magazines during the [[First World War]], while serving in the army. After the war he freelanced until the mid-1920s, when he was appointed literary editor of ''[[The Daily Express]]''. In the 1930s he was features editor of ''[[The Daily Mail]]''. At the beginning of the [[Second World War]] he served in the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]] and then the [[BBC]]. In 1942 he was appointed to his last editorial position, as editor of ''[[The Strand Magazine]]''.<ref name=times>"Reginald Pound", ''[[The Times]]'', 28 May 1991, p. 14</ref>

The first of his biographies, a life of [[Arnold Bennett]], was published in 1952, and paid close attention to Bennett's journalism as well as his fiction.<ref>Koenigsberger, Kurt. [https://ift.tt/3gxcBHo "Bennett, Arnold"], ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2020 </ref> ''[[The Times]]'' recordes that Pound had met Bennett several times and "admired his no-nonsense approach to the craft of letters".<ref name=times/> Pound was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1953. His second biography, the official life of [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northclife]], written in collaboration with Northcliffe's nephew Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, was published in 1959.<ref>"Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth", ''The Times'', 25 October 198, p. 16</ref> His later biographies included those of [[Alfred Munnings]] (1962),<ref>"Books Reviewed", ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'', 3 November 1962, p. 722</ref> [[Robert Falcon Scott]] (1966), [[Henry Wood]] (1969), [[Queen Victoria]] (1970), [[Albert, Prince Consort]] (1973) and [[A. P. Herbert]] (1976).<ref name=times/>

In 1916 Pound married Cicely Margaret Dawes (d. 1985 ); they had seven children. He died on 20 May 1991 aged 96.<ref name=times/>
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