J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

Born in Nottingham on 24 February 1876, John Collis Snaith wrote under the name J. C. Snaith. He built a career as a novelist in the early 20th century, and reference sources note that much of his early work was in sentimental romance.

Snaith also ventured into imaginative and speculative fiction. Works highlighted by major reference sources include Mrs Fitz (1910), An Affair of State (1913), The Coming (1917), and The Council of Seven (1921), showing a range that ran from romance to near-future and fantastical ideas.

He had an unusual second claim to fame as a cricketer: he played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1900 and later appeared with the Authors Cricket Club alongside literary figures such as A. A. Milne and P. G. Wodehouse. He died in Hampstead on 8 December 1936.