Background
Conrad Voss Bark was born in 1913 to a family of Quakers in the Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Conrad Voss Bark was born in 1913 to a family of Quakers in the Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire.
He studied at Hymers College in Hull and at Bristol Grammar School in Clifton, Bristol.
He started working at J. South. Fry & Sons, the chocolate maker from Bristol, and in 1935 started working as a journalist for the Hampstead News and the Golders Green Gazette. He started working for the Western Daily Press after the end of the war, and in 1947 became a writer for The Times. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1951 and was between 1952 and 1970 the parliamentary correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation television, becoming "the first news reporter to broadcast the news live on television".
Afterwards he worked for Charles Barker City, a public relations company and became the spokesman for the British Trawler Federation in 1973, during the Second Cod War.
As a fiction writer, he was best known for his series of Mr. David Holmes detective novels.
He was a Times angling correspondent for twelve years after retiring from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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He was a conscientious objector and a volunteer for the ambulance services during World World War World War II