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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 first on the staff of the Allahabad Pioneer (1900–03). In voyage on the steamship Umona to his next position with the Cape Times, Colvin was shipwrecked on an atoll of the Maldives. He joined a small group in a lifeboat which after nine days reached Colombo. He then proceeded to Cape Town (1903–07), where he wrote on the political and cultural scene in those formative years of the Union of South Africa. His research into the history of South Africa led to two volumes "South Africa" and "The Cape of Adventure". In 1907, Colvin returned to the United Kingdom where he joined The Morning Post. (From Wikipedia)

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