Background
Digby, Bassett was born on January 25, 1888 in London, England. Son of late George Beverly Wyatt and Minnie (Keeling) D.
Digby, Bassett was born on January 25, 1888 in London, England. Son of late George Beverly Wyatt and Minnie (Keeling) D.
Educated privately and London University College School.
In London office Chicago Daily News, 1909-1910. On staff of Knickerbocker Press, Albany, New York, 1910. Traveling and studying in Siberia, 1911.
On staff Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1912-1913.
In Siberia, Mongolia and Manchuria, making ethnological studies and collections of fauna and flora, 1914. Explored North.E. coast of Baikal and discovered in North.E. Siberia skull and horn of extinct woolly rhinoceros, first tusks of baby mammoth, and other mammoth remains.
Disguised as Siberian peasant, visited lamaseries along Mongolian border. War correspondent of Chicago Daily News in Egypt, Scandinavia, Balkans, Poland and Russia, from 1914.
Extensive contributor to American and European publications.
Author: (with Richardson Wright) Through Siberia.
Fellow Royal Geography Society.
Married Mission Doctorate. South. Johnson, of Warsaw, Poland, July 18, 1915.