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CodeDS/UK/3771
NameNevinson; Henry Wood (1856-1941); British campaigning journalist
Dates1856-1941
GenderMale
BiographyHenry Wood Nevinson (11 0ctober 1856 – 9 November 1941) was a British campaigning journalist. He was known for his reporting on the Second Boer War, and slavery in Angola in 1904-1905.

He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I was a war correspondent, being wounded at Gallipoli.

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