Philip Graves

Journalist

Birthday February 25, 1876

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Birthplace Ireland

DEATH DATE Jun 3, 1953 (77)

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About

Irish journalist and author best remembered for exposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an elaborate anti-Semitic hoax.

Before Fame

He attended Oxford University and became a foreign correspondent for The Times in Constantinople (present day Istanbul).

Trivia

He was also a practitioner of entomology, and published numerous works on insects and butterflies.

Family Life

His father, Alfred Perceval Graves, was also a writer, as was his younger brother, Robert Graves.

Associated With

He served alongside T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in the British Army.