Massingham, Harold John (1888–1952)

English journalist and nature writer. He wrote several studies of bird and animal life, folklore, and the English countryside. His works include Some Birds of the Countryside (1921), Untrodden Ways (1923), Downland Man (1926), Country (1934), Genius of England (1937), The Fall of the Year (1941), and An Englishman's Year (1948).

He was born in London and was educated at Westminster School and Queen's College, Oxford. He was on the staff of the Morning Leader and the Athenaeum 1912–14, becoming a regular weekly contributor to the Nation and Athenaeum 1916–24.