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Ian Colvin
Ian Duncan Colvin (29 September 1877 — 10 May 1938) was a British journalist and historian. Of Scottish extraction, he was educated at Inverness College and the University of Edinburgh. Moving about the British Empire, he worked on the staff of the Allahabad ''Pioneer'' (1900-3) and the ''Cape Times'' (1903-7) before joining ''The Morning Post''.
Between 1909-37 he was the paper's leader-writer under the pseudonym Rip Van Winkle, earning himself the title of 'keeper of the Tory conscience'.〔The Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1995), pp.617-8〕 During this time he also wrote a series of amusing rhymed fables, several based on Aesop but reworked to fit contemporary politics. Originally published under the initials I.C., they were collected in 1914 and published under his own name with the title ''Aesop in Politics''.〔Available at (Hathi Trust )〕 Earlier collections of his satirical verses were ''Party Whips: by a Tory'' (1912) and ''Intercepted Letters'' (1913). In 1915 he published ''The Germans in England, 1066–1598'', in which he claimed the Hanseatic League had tried to control Europe through a mixture of peaceful and violent means.〔Panikos Panayi, 'Germans in Britain's History', in Panayi (ed.), ''Germans in Britain since 1500'' (Hambledon Continuum, 1996), p. 13.〕 He followed this with ''The unseen hand in English history'' (1917), which was designed "to show, by examining a segment of our history, from the reign of Elizabeth to the end of the eighteenth century, that England is most happy when the national interest and the government work together, and least happy when our government is controlled by the unseen hand of the foreigner".〔(Hathi Trust catalogue )〕
In 1929 he published his biography of General Reginald Dyer. He also wrote three volumes on the life of the Irish Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson.
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