Angus McGill

Angus McGill
Born26 November 1927
South Shields, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Died16 October 2015(2015-10-16) (aged 87)
United Kingdom
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Educationformer Warehousemen, Clerks’ and Drapers’ School
OccupationJournalist

Angus McGill MBE (26 November 1927 – 16 October 2015) was an English journalist who made his name writing a humorous weekly column in the London Evening Standard, which ran for 30 years documenting all that was eccentric about London life. In 1968, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma,[1] he also created a daily cartoon strip called Clive, later renamed Augusta.[2] McGill won the British Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the Year 1968[3] and was appointed MBE in 1990.[4]

  1. ^ "POELSMA Dominic b. 1936". Artist Biographies Ltd., 8 October 2003.
  2. ^ "McGILL, Angus ". Who's Who, 28 October 2017.
  3. ^ "British Press Awards 1968" Archived 8 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. The Society of Editors National Press Awards.
  4. ^ "Supplement to The London Gazette, p14". The London Gazette, 30 December 1989.