About Thomas Meech
Lived 1868 – 1940 (aged 71–72). Thomas Meech was a journalist, lawyer and writer.
Thomas Cox Meech (1868 – 20 October 1940) was an English journalist, author and lawyer.
Born in Beaminster and educated at Ardingly College, Meech was initially intent on becoming a lawyer but instead turned to journalism, becoming editor of Ayrshire Post, Lancashire Daily Post and the Northern Echo. He published his first novel Only a Collier in 1890. Other books include biographies of Thomas Burt and William McKinley and a history of the Great Britain and Ireland called This Generation (1927–28). With Ladbroke Black he wrote several books under the pen name Paul Urquhart.
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English journalist, author and lawyer
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Thomas Meech was born in 1868.
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Thomas Meech died on 20 October 1940.
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Thomas Meech was a journalist, lawyer and writer.
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