Tomlinson, H(enry) M(ajor) (1873–1958)

English travel writer and novelist. His travel books include The Sea and the Jungle (1912), about a voyage up the Amazon, Turn of the Tide (1945), and Malay Waters (1950). His novels, which he claimed were all autobiographical, include Gallions Reach (1927) and All Our Yesterdays (1930), about World War I.

Tomlinson was born in London. He became a journalist and joined the staff of the Morning Leader in 1904. He was a war correspondent, then literary editor of the Nation 1917–23.