Journalism Career
After leaving school, Morton entered journalism on the staff of the newspaper edited by his father, the Birmingham Gazette and Express. After two years, he became its assistant editor in 1912. He then moved to London, and spent most of the rest of his British career there, on various national newspapers and magazines. His first job in the capital was as a freelance lineage reporter for the Evening Standard.
He served in the Warwickshire Yeomanry during World War I, but saw no action. After the war, he returned to London and journalism, from 1919 on the Evening Standard, and from 1921 on the Daily Express. His columns on London life in the latter became very popular. In 1923 he achieved worldwide fame for his reports on the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun, as he successfully out-manoeuvered the official Times journalist who had been given exclusive rights to the story. From 1931 to 1942, he was "special writer" at the Daily Herald.
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