Frank Fox

Born in Adelaide in 1874, Sir Frank Ignatius Fox was an Australian journalist, author, and public campaigner who later made his home in Britain. Before settling there in 1909, he worked in Australian journalism and served in the military, experiences that strongly influenced the subjects he wrote about.

Fox was a prolific writer whose books ranged across imperial politics, naval and military questions, travel, and national identity. Sources consulted during this search also describe him as a strong advocate of imperial unity, which helps explain the tone and focus of much of his work.

He died in 1960. Today he is remembered less as a novelist than as a vigorous man of letters and public commentator whose writing captured the outlook of the British Empire in the early twentieth century.