Columb 'Collie' Thomas Knox (1899–1977) was a British writer and journalist active during World War II and the 1950s. After a varied military career, he joined the Daily Express before switching to the Daily Mail, which promoted him as a star journalist. In 1944 he married Gwendoline Frances Mary Mitchell, but they divorced in 1948. For a time he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer Peter Coats, and together with Sir David Webster, Robin Maugham, Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that town's homosexual celebrities. Source: Wikipedia (en)