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Brian Penton
Brian Con Penton (21 August 1904 – 24 August 1951) was an Australian journalist and novelist. He was born at Ascot, a suburb of Brisbane, and educated at Brisbane Grammar School.
==Writing career==
In 1921 Penton found employment as a copy-boy on the ''Brisbane Courier'' and went on to work on The Sydney Morning Herald, ''The Daily Express'' and ''The Daily Mail'' in London and Sir Frank Packer's ''The Daily Telegraph'' in Sydney. He eventually became the editor of ''The Daily Telegraph''. He also did some speech-writing for the Australian prime minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce, and for Bruce's predecessor Billy Hughes. In addition, he worked as a political and social commentator and published a number of works criticizing the political regimes of the day.〔Buckridge, Patrick, 'Penton, Brian Con (1904 - 1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 589-590.〕
Penton wrote two novels, which sold quite well: ''Landtakers'' (1934), which chronicles pioneering life in Queensland from 1824–64, and a sequel ''Inheritors'' (1936). One of the principal characters in these books is said to be based on Patrick Mayne of the Mayne Inheritance.
William Dobell won the 1943 Archibald Prize (awarded January 1944) with his 'caricature' portrait of Joshua Smith (artist). In the ensuing controversy Penton sided with Dobell, both in ''The Daily Telegraph'' and in his 1946 book on Dobell. The book includes a reproduction of Dobell's 'caricature' portrait of Penton, submitted to the same Archibald exhibition.
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