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Penton, Brian, 1904-1951
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- Penton, Brian Con, 1904-1951
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1904-1951
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Brian Penton was born in Brisbane in 1904 and educated at the Brisbane Grammar School. He was a controversial journalist and novelist whose interests ranged from literature, art and politics to yachting. In 1924 he married Olga Grace Moss, a Latin and English teacher at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School. In 1925 they moved to Sydney and Brian Penton wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald. From 1928 - 1933 the Pentons lived in London, where they were close with Jack and Norman Lindsay and P R (Inky) Stepehenson. Brian Penton worked as a sub-editor for the Daily Express and as editor of the Fanfrolico Press, while Olga Penton taught in a more lucrative job at the Pitman Business College. In 1933 the Pentons moved back to Sydney where Brian Penton began work for the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He was the editor from 1941. He led the campaign against censorship of the press during the Second World War. The ensuing court case was the subject of Censored! in 1947. His novel Landtakers, written in 1934, was acclaimed. He died in 1951.
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Revised, JH, 5-May-2020
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Patrick Buckridge, 'Brian Con Penton (1904-1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed online 5-May-2020