Trevor Wignall

Trevor Charles Wignall (1881 - 1958) was an author and sportswriter.[1]

Wignall was a lieutenant at the end of the First World War.[2] His father, James Wignall was an M.P. for the Forest of Dean between 1918 and 1925.[2]

In 1920 he wrote two stories for The Sexton Blake Library: The Case of The Japanese Detective in SBL #119 and The House with the Red Blinds for SBL #143.[3]

Wignall worked for the Cambria Daily Leader, the South Wales Daily Post, the Morning Leader, the Sporting Life and the Daily Mail.[1] He then became the Chief Sportswriter of the Daily Express.[4] While he was at The Daily Express in the 1930s, William Pollock the paper's cricket correspondent, stated that Wignall was earning more than £100 a week.[4]

The New York Times described Wignall as "once of The London Daily Express and at one time Britain's most famous sports writer".[5]

  1. ^ a b Greenslade, Roy (26 October 2012). "So phone hacking isn't new after all!". The Guardian.
  2. ^ a b "Lieut Trevor Wignall". Cambrian Daily Leader. Swansea. 3 March 1919. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Blakiana: The Sexton Blake Resource".
  4. ^ a b Chandler, Martin (5 April 2020). "Googly' of The Daily Express".
  5. ^ Daley, Arthur (9 December 1944). "Sports of the Times; The Customers Always Write". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.