Tom Pocock

Thomas Allcot Guy Pocock (born August 18, 1925 in London ; † May 7, 2007 ibid) was a British journalist and naval historian who also worked as a war correspondent in World War II and specialized in the history of the Navy after the war and published several books for it.

Life

Career

Even Pocock's father, Guy Pocock , was active on the literary level and published novels; he also worked at Dartmouth Naval College before joining the BBC . Tom Pocock attended Westminster School for a year before his parents decided that he should move to the country as war was imminent. Pocock was disappointed with this decision; he had envisioned joining the Royal Navy at the appropriate age .

Nevertheless, Pocock was able to serve on a ship in 1943, but failed again due to illness after the invasion of Normandy and was able to leave the hospital again in late 1944. From 1945 he acted as a war correspondent and was thus the youngest of this profession.

After the war, Pocock worked for various newspapers, first for the Hulton Press , then he moved to the Daily Mail , where he worked, among other things, as a naval correspondent. From 1952 he worked for The Times , but he later wrote again for the Daily Mail, during this time, among other things, with the function of a war correspondent.

Pocock published his first book in 1967 under the title Nelson and His World , which dealt with the British Admiral Horatio Nelson . Nelson, in particular, was of great interest to Pocock, who dedicated eight of his books to this topic. He published his books under the name Tom Pocock .

He later wrote about Nelson in various magazines and also appeared in television documentaries about the Admiral.

Pocock married in 1968 - according to other sources in 1969 - and had two children with his wife.

Web links

• Pocock's CV in The Guardian
• Short biography of Pocock

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pocock's alternative marriage date