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3 unusual facts about Henry Vollam Morton


Henry Vollam Morton

He first achieved fame in 1923 when, while working for the Daily Express, he scooped the official Times correspondent during the coverage of the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamon by Howard Carter in Egypt.

After the war, he returned to London and journalism, from 1919 on the Evening Standard, and from 1921 on the Daily Express.

In 1926, as motoring was becoming established in the UK, he set off to drive around England in a bull-nosed Morris, an early mass-produced motor-car.



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