He was best known as the writer of On Eagle's Wings, one of the books used as the basis for the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, one of the most commercially successful films ever released.
[1] In 1915 he became minister at the Methodist Church in Froyle, Hampshire, a post he left in 1919.
[1] He is also believed to have worked for a while as a missionary in West Africa and China.
[3] He wrote at least 15 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including On Eagle's Wings, which was first published in 1937.
Southon died in Bristol on 30 December 1964, at the age of 77.