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Tom Pocock
Born

Thomas Allcot Guy Pocock


18 August 1925
London
Died7 May 2007(2007-05-07) (aged 81)
London
Academic work
Main interestsmilitary historian, maritime history, Royal Navy

Thomas Allcot Guy Pocock (18 August 1925 – 7 May 2007) was an English biographer, war correspondent, journalist and naval historian.

Life[edit]

He was the son of the novelist and educationist Guy Pocock, who taught Lord Mountbatten at Dartmouth, and Dorothy Bowers. He was educated at West Downs and Westminster School. He joined the Royal Navy in 1943, being present at D-Day and then serving as naval "minder" to war correspondents covering the Battle of Normandy. Falling ill, by the end of 1944 he was demobbed [demobilized], and became a war correspondent at only 19 years old. He spent four years with the Hulton Press current affairs magazine group, being one of the first journalists to see Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and learning his trade from Alan Moorehead (later becoming his biographer). He then moved on to be a feature-writer and then Naval Correspondent on the Daily Mail, and then (in 1952) Naval Correspondent of The Times.

He was a foreign correspondent and special writer for the Daily Express from 1956 to 1959, then from 1959 was feature writer, Defence Correspondent, war correspondent and finally Travel Editor on the Evening Standard.

In 1969 he married Penny Casson, a granddaughter of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike; they had two daughters. He won the Mountbatten Maritime Prize in 2004.

Relatives[edit]

Tom Pocock's family included Vice-Admiral Sir George Pocock, K.B. (who was the captor of Havana in the Seven Years' War), the marine painter Nicholas Pocock and his aunt Doris Pocock who was an author of girls' school stories.

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External links[edit]

Vice-Admiral George Pocock *George Pocock Nicolas Pocock *[1]


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