Monday, 16 April 2018
1885 Colin Coote
Constituency : Wisbech 1917-18, Isle of Ely 1918-22
Colin took over at Wisbech when Neil Primrose was killed in action. He was elected unopposed.
Colin was educated at Rugby and Oxford. He served in the Gloucestershire Regiment and served in France and Italy as a captain. He was both wounded and gassed and received the D.S.O, in 1918. He was a Congregationalist.
Colin was elected unopposed with the coupon in 1918 but came second to the Conservatives in 1922. Colin later described it as the "crowning mercy" of his career as he subsequently went into journalism.
Colin became the Rome correspondent of The Times , covering the rise of Mussolini. He later became parliamentary reporter and then a leader writer. He opposed the paper's support for appeasement and eventually switched to The Daily Telegraph in 1942. He also headed the Public Relations Department at the War Office. He became deputy editor in 1945 and then editor from 1950 to 1964. He was knighted in 1962. He played an innocent part in the Profumo scandal by introducing Stephen Ward, his osteopath , to the Russian spy, Ivanov.
Colin was a wine buff.
He died in 1979 aged 85.
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