Beckles Willson and his wife moved from Canada to Talbot Road Paddington in London in 1890s describing himself as a journalist and author.
For a while during 1911 the family lived at Quebec House in Westerham, Kent, once the childhood home of James Wolfe.
The same year he became assistance editor of the Sunday Dispatch, and a colour portrait by Lewis Baumer of Patricia appeared in Tatler magazine in the November.
In 1939 Gordon remarried a French divorcee Hélène Juliette Nelly Freer-Ash (née Planckaert) in Westminster.
He wrote under the name Gordon Beckles, a journalist with the Daily Express and at 25 became an assistant editor of the Sunday Dispatch.
He also wrote for Lilliput and had regular columns for Tatler magazine under the titles: "Some Portraits in Print" and "Talk of the Town" covering society gossip and the Royal Family.
[6] Beckles collaborated with J. Lee Thompson and Lesley Storm on the screenplay of East of Piccadilly (1941) a mystery film (1h 15m) starring Judy Campbell and Sebastian Shaw, based on his original story.
[16] Synopsis: Pennie Sutton (Judy Campbell), a crime reporter, and Tamsie Green (Sabastian Shaw), pulp writer, are first on the scene of one in a series of murders.