In the 1950s, he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister paper to the South African Drum. While at the Dragon he played rugby and shot at Bisley.ĭuring his national service, he was commissioned in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in January 1950 and served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles in the same battalion as Lance-Corporal Idi Amin.īefore turning full-time author, he was an ITN reporter and newscaster for two years, the New York City correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's The Sunday Express, and then worked for nearly twenty years on The Times five as its chief reporter, and latterly as a Middle East and Far East specialist. From an early age he was interested in spy novels carrying around Buchan's Greenmantle and Kipling's Kim. Hopkirk was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford. The family hailed originally from Roxburghshire in the borders of Scotland. Peter Hopkirk was born in Nottingham, the son of Frank Stuart and Mary Hopkirk ( née Perkins) his father was an Anglican priest. Peter Stuart Hopkirk (15 December 1930 – 22 August 2014) was a British journalist, author and historian who wrote six books about the British Empire, Russia and Central Asia.
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