Background
GRATWICKE, George Frederick was born on March 24, 1850 in Broadcast.
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George Frederick GRATWICKE
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Career
One daughter Managing Director Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette, Exeter. Sheriff of Exeter, 1900. Chairman of Chamber of Commerce, 1901.
Retired Major 4th Volume
Battalion Devonshire Regiment. Founder of Orphan Fund of Institute of Journalists.
Chairman of Devon and Cornwall District of the Institute, 1883 and 1885. President of the Institute, 1905 - 6.
Member of the Committee of the Newspaper Society, 1901-1905.
Captain Devon Volunteer Teams, 1894- 1904. Of M‘Kinnon Team at Bisley, 1892-1902. Founder of English Twenty Club.
Adjutant to English Twenty Team, 1883-1896.
English representative of Massachusetts Team in England, 1889. Won Saint George’s Vase, 1878.
Shot for England for the National Trophy, 1879-1884, also for Mother Country against the Colonies, and for the Volunteers against the Army and Navy. Provincial Secretary of the Mark Master Masons of Devon, 1880-1885.
Provincial Grand Registrar of the Craft for Devon, 1904.
A British delegate to International Congresses of Press at Antwerp, Bordeaux, Rome, Berlin, London, and Trieste, and Congress of the World’s Press at Saint Louis. President of British International Association of Journalists, 1906-1907-8-9. Volunteer Officers" Decoration, R.W.O., Knight of First Class of Royal Order of Wasa, 1906.
Journalist.
Membership
Fellow of Institute of Joumalists.
