Walter Harris

Born in 1866, Walter Burton Harris was an English journalist, travel writer, and longtime special correspondent for The Times. He became closely associated with Morocco, where he spent many years reporting on politics, society, and daily life, and he built a reputation for going where other European writers and reporters could not.

His writing drew on direct experience and helped shape British readers’ understanding of North Africa. Alongside journalism, he published books on Morocco and the wider region, combining observation, travel narrative, and political insight in a way that made his work both informative and vivid.

Harris died in 1933. He is still remembered chiefly for his reporting and books on Morocco, which capture both the atmosphere of the country and the worldview of an influential foreign correspondent of his era.