Philip Graves
| Philip Perceval Graves | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 December 1876 Ballylickey Manor, County Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 3 June 1953 (aged 76) Ballylickey Manor, County Cork, Ireland |
| Nationality | British, Irish |
| Occupation | Journalist, Correspondent of The Times, London |
| Known for | debunking the as a forgery in 1919, correspondent of "The Times" in Constantinople before 1914 |
Philip Perceval Graves (25 February 1876 – 3 June 1953) was an Irish journalist and writer. While working as a foreign correspondent of The Times in Constantinople, he exposed as an antisemitic plagiarism, fraud and hoax.
Graves, eldest son of the writer Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931), was born in Ballylickey Manor, County Cork, Ireland, into a prominent Anglo-Irish family. He studied in Haileybury and Oxford University. He was the elder half brother of author Robert Graves.
As a correspondent of The Times in Constantinople from 1908 to 1914, he reported on the events preceding World War I. In 1914, as a British citizen, he had to leave the Ottoman Empire due to the war. In 1915–1919, he served in the British Army in the Middle East war theatre. As a captain in Army Intelligence in Cairo he worked with T. E. Lawrence on the Turkish Army Manual for the Arab Bureau. His uncle Sir Robert Windham Graves had been British Consul in Erzurum (1895) and financial adviser to the Turkish government (1912) and worked for Civil Intelligence in Cairo during the same period.
After 1919, Graves reported from his own homeland on the Anglo-Irish War. He knew Michael Collins, W. T. Cosgrave and the various Irish leaders and was closely involved in reporting events in this critical period of Irish history. He later worked as a foreign correspondent in India, the Levant and in the Balkans and before returning to London to work as an editor of The Times.
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