Early Professional Career
Hollis worked in England for Barclays Bank, then as a reporter for the Shanghai Morning Post, and with British American Tobacco in China, where he remained for eight years. While in China, Hollis apparently associated frequently with the noted left-wing activist Agnes Smedley. Hollis developed tuberculosis, and returned to England in 1936 for a brief spell with the Ardath Tobacco Company, an associate of BAT.
On 10 July 1937 he married Evelyn Esmé (at Wells Cathedral) who was the daughter of George Champeny Swayne, of Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, solicitor in Glastonbury. Their one child, Adrian Swayne Hollis, became a fellow and tutor in classics at Keble College, Oxford, and a chess player of international reputation, eventually earning the title of correspondence chess Grandmaster.
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