author
C. H. C. (Charles Harry Clinton) Pirie-Gordon
1883–1969
A historian of the medieval world as well as a journalist and genealogist, he moved easily between scholarship and public life. Best known as the author of Innocent the Great, he also had a long connection to British naval intelligence and to heraldic history.
1 Audiobook
The weird of the wanderer : Being the papyrus records of some incidents in one of the previous lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe
by Frederick Rolfe, C. H. C. (Charles Harry Clinton) Pirie-Gordon
About the author
Born in 1883, Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon wrote under the name C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon. Records from the UK National Archives describe him as a journalist, naval intelligence officer, and genealogist, while library and catalog sources link him to historical writing such as Innocent the Great: An Essay on His Life and Times, published in 1907.
His career seems to have ranged widely. Later notices identify him with The Times, the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division, and the title of 13th Laird of Buthlaw. That mix of journalism, military service, and family-history scholarship helps explain the distinctive character of his work: learned, practical, and closely tied to the institutions of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
Pirie-Gordon is also remembered in bibliographic records for collaborations connected with Frederick Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo. He died in 1969. Although detailed biographical sources are limited, the surviving record shows a writer whose interests stretched from medieval church history to genealogy and public service.