Henry
Major Tomlinson (21
June 1873 – 5 February 1958) was a British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life
at sea. He was born and died in London. Tomlinson was brought up in Poplar, London. He worked as a shipping clerk, and then as a
reporter for the Morning Leader newspaper; he travelled up
the Amazon River for it. In World War I he was an official correspondent for
the British Army, in France.
In 1917 he returned to work with H. W. Massingham on The Nation, which
opposed the war. He left the paper in 1923, when Massingham resigned because of
a change of owner and political line. His 1931 book Norman Douglas was one of the first biographies of
that scandalous but then much admired writer.