Escott Lynn

Escott Lynn is generally identified as the pseudonym of Christopher George Holman Lawrence, a British writer of adventure fiction for younger readers. Public information about him is quite sparse, but library and book-record sources consistently connect the name with novels such as Knights of the Air, A Cavalier of Fortune, Stirring Days in Old Virginia, and Blair of Balaclava.

He appears to have written mainly fast-moving historical and military stories, often aimed at boys and young teens. Some book sources also list other pen names linked with him, including Jackspur and Lawrence Abbott, suggesting a busy career shaped around popular adventure publishing in the early 1900s.

Because so little firmly documented biographical material is readily available, most surviving traces of his life come through catalogs, reprint listings, and reader communities rather than detailed reference works. No clearly verifiable portrait image was found from the sources reviewed here.