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Frank Scudamore

1859–1939

A British journalist best remembered as a war correspondent, he wrote with the eye of someone who had seen public events up close. His surviving books suggest a writer interested in both current affairs and imaginative speculation.

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The Great War of 189-: A Forecast

The Great War of 189-: A Forecast

by P. H. (Philip Howard) Colomb, Archibald Forbes, Charles Lowe, F. N. (Frederic Natusch) Maude, John Frederick Maurice, David Christie Murray, Frank Scudamore

About the author

Born in 1859 and dying in 1939, Frank Scudamore is identified in major library records as a British author of that period. Bibliographic sources link his name to works including The Great War of 189- and show that his writing circulated widely enough to remain cataloged in research libraries.

A general reference source also describes Francis (Frank) Scudamore as a well-known war correspondent connected with The Times and the Daily News. That fits the tone of his reputation: a writer associated not just with books, but with journalism shaped by major events and public life.

Because detailed biographical material is limited in the sources I could confirm, much of his personal story remains hard to pin down. Still, the record that survives presents him as a late-Victorian and early-20th-century man of letters whose work sat at the meeting point of reportage, commentary, and long-form writing.