Collie Knox

Columb "Collie" Thomas Knox (13 March 1897 – 3 May 1977) was a British writer and journalist active during World War II and the 1950s.

He was of Ulster Scots descent, the great-great grandson of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland.

[2] He was educated at Rugby School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

His elder brother Lt. John Vesey Knox (1892–1918) was killed in an accident while an instructor for the RFC.

[2] For a time, he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer Peter Coats,[4] and together with Sir David Webster, Robin Maugham, Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that town's homosexual celebrities.