Clare Hollingworth
Journalist

Clare Hollingworth Net Worth

Clare Hollingworth was an English journalist born on October 10, 1911 in Leicester, England. She is most famous for being the first war correspondent to report to the British Foreign Office about the invasion of Poland from an eyewitness account, and for being one of the first to report on the beginning of World War II. Her reporting was instrumental in alerting the world to the impending conflict.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day October 10, 1911
Birth Place Leicester, England
Age 109 YEARS OLD
Died On Jan 10, 2017 (age 105)
Birth Sign Libra

💰 Net worth: $20 million (2024)

About

English Journalist who was famous for being the first war correspondent to report to the British Foreign Office about the invasion of Poland from an eyewitness account, and about the beginning of World War II in general.

Before Fame

She had been working as a Journalist for The Daily Telegraph for less than a week when she was sent to Poland. She traveled across the German-Polish border to find a build-up of Nazi German troops and artillery.

Trivia

She authored a number of books called Poland's Three Weeks' War, There's a German Right Behind Me, The Arabs and the West, Mao and the Men Against Him, and Front Line (memoirs). She was an honorary goodwill ambassador of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong.

Family Life

She married Vandeleur Robinson in 1936, divorcing him in 1951. She had a stepdaughter from her second marriage to Geoffrey Hoare. She was a survivor of the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem that killed 91 people.

Associated With

She and Ernie Pyle were both important World War II correspondents.

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