A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard) Atteridge

Born in 1852 and dying in June 1941, A. Hilliard Atteridge built a long career as a journalist, author, and war correspondent. Contemporary and library records describe him as an Anglo-Irish Catholic writer whose work ranged across military history, biography, and current affairs.

He reported on the Sudan campaign in 1896 for the Daily Chronicle and also served as an officer in the London Irish Rifles. That combination of reporting and service helps explain the practical, detail-minded tone of much of his writing, which often focuses on campaigns, commanders, sea fights, and the machinery of war.

Atteridge was a notably prolific author. Catalogs of his work list titles such as Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima, Marshal Ney, Joachim Murat, Battles of the Nineteenth Century, and The Book of the Machine Gun. He also contributed articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, showing how comfortably he moved between popular history and reference writing.