Biography
Edmund Noble was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1853. He was the son of John and Eliza Noble who were natives of England. After the death of his father, in 1868, his mother and other members of the family emigrated to the United States in 1872, and located in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated under the instruction of his grandfather the Rev. William George Nevatt, and in the public schools of St. Helen's, Lancashire, England. Upon completing his studies he entered the journalistic field.
Noble began his career as a reporter on the "St. Helen's Standard" in 1872. Later, he moved to Liverpool, where he worked on the "Liverpool Courier" and "Liverpool City News". From 1882 to 1884 Noble was a special correspondent in Russia for various English newspapers including the "Daily News", "Daily Globe", "Manchester Guardian" and "Glasgow Herald". There he met his future wife, Lydia Lvovna Pimenoff, a Russian citizen.
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