14 Facts About Lovat Dickson

Lovat Dickson, born Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson, was a notable publisher and writer, the first Canadian to have a major publishing role in Britain.

Lovat Dickson is best known today for his biographies of Grey Owl, Richard Hillary, Radclyffe Hall and H G Wells.

Lovat Dickson wrote a history of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Lovat Dickson was born in Victoria, Australia to parents of United Empire Loyalist descent.

Lovat Dickson began studies at the University of Alberta in 1923, graduating in 1927 with first class honours in English and earning the Lieutenant Governor's Gold Medal and a Royal Society of Canada Fellowship in English literature.

Lovat Dickson earned a Master of Arts degree from the U of A in 1929, but by this time he had already returned to England, where he embarked on a successful career as an editor and publisher.

Lovat Dickson was first assistant editor of the Fortnightly Review, and later the editor of the Review of Reviews.

Lovat Dickson started his own publishing company in 1932, called Lovat Dickson Limited, later forming a publishing partnership with Piers Gilchrist Thompson.

Grey Owl and Lovat Dickson became friends and Lovat Dickson wrote two memoirs of the enigmatic Englishman: Half Breed and Wilderness Man: The Strange Story of Grey Owl.

Lovat Dickson has written an entertaining story of a real eccentric and a vanishing way of life.

Lovat Dickson has painstakingly pieced together the tapestry of Grey Owl's life through interviews and research.

Lovat Dickson believed that Trevor-Roper's vivid account of the last ten days of Hitler's life would be a bestseller and won the bidding war to publish it.

Lovat Dickson wrote to Trevor-Roper that the initial title of Hitler's End had been rejected and advised him to change the title of his book to The Last Days of Hitler, a suggestion that was accepted.

Lovat Dickson wrote to Trevor-Roper that was "aghast" at the Irgun death threat and advised him to seek police protection.