Edward Cranston Campbell (26 August 1916, Glasgow – 4 April 2006, Tunbridge Wells) was a British journalist, and an acknowledged authority on circuses and the training of wild animals.[1]

Career

Campbell began his journalistic career in the late 1930s with Kemsley Newspapers in Glasgow. He moved to Fleet Street in 1956, where he worked for the Evening Standard, the Evening News and the Sunday Dispatch.[1][2]

Books

Campbell also authored books, among them Jungle Be Gentle, the ghost-written "autobiography" of his friend, the German animal trainer Hans Brick, and The People of the Secret, published by Idries Shah's Octagon Press,[3] under the pseudonym "Ernest Scott".[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stacey, Don (18 May 2006). "Obituaries: Edward Campbell". The Stage. Archived from the original on 20 September 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  2. Author information provided in an ICR Monograph
  3. Buratti, Robert (2002). "Quest for the People of the Secret". New Dawn (issue 74). New Gnosis Communications Int. Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  4. The People of the Secret, Octagon Press 1986, ISBN 0-86304-038-1


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