James Louis Garvin

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James Louis Garvin (April 12, 1868 - January 23, 1947) was a British journalist who edited both the Pall Mall Gazette (1912-1915) and The Observer (1908-42). He also wrote for the Sunday Express and The Daily Telegraph and was editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica (1926-1932).

In 1919 Garvin wrote an editorial in The Observer on the Treaty of Versailles saying "The Treaty left the Germans 'no real hope except in revenge'".[1]

He was also a member of the Coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

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• Portraits of James Garvin at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Preceded by Frederick Higginbottom	Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette 1912 - 1915	Succeeded by unknown
Preceded by Austin Harrison	Editor of The Observer 1908 - 1942	Succeeded by Ivor Brown