What is Clare Hollingworth?
'''Clare Hollingworth''' (10 October 1911 &ndash; 10 January 2017) was an [[English people|English]] journalist and author. She worked for the [[newspaper]] ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. In 1939, she became the first person to report the beginning of [[World War II]] while in [[Poland]]. She was born in [[Knighton, Leicester|Knighton]], [[Leicester]], [[England]].<ref name=addley>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview13|title=A foreign affair|first=Esther|last=Addley|date=16 January 2004|access-date=10 January 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In [[World War I]], her father took over the running of his father's footwear factory, and they moved to a farm near [[Shepshed]].<ref name=addley/> Hollingworth moved to [[Hong Kong]] in the 1980s. She [[Centenarian|turned 100]] in 2011. She died on 10 January 2017 in [[Central, Hong Kong]] at the age of 105.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Clare Hollingworth: British war correspondent dies aged 105|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38573643|work=[[BBC]]|date=10 January 2017|access-date=10 January 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollingworth, Clare}} [[Category:1911 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:English centenarians]] [[Category:English journalists]] [[Category:Writers from Leicester]] {{Bio-stub}}