C. N. Williamson

Charles Norris (C N) Williamson (1859–1920) was a British writer, motoring journalist and founder of the Black and White Magazine who was perhaps best known for his collaboration with his wife, Alice Muriel Williamson, in a number of novels and travelogues.

Born in Exeter, Williamson was educated at University College, London, where he studied engineering.

He spent eight years as a journalist on The Graphic before establishing the Black and White in 1891 as founding editor.

Charles wrote some novels on his own, as did Alice after her husband's death He died at Combe Down, Bath, on Sunday 3 October 1920.

[1] For an unknown period, but certainly in the 1890s he edited (or "conducted") a 1 penny fortnightly periodical entitled The Minute, illustrated, a sort of Reader's Digest of contemporary Victorian society, supported by much advertising.