Leonard Marsland Gander (1902-1986), who wrote as L Marsland Gander) was a journalist,

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, and radio and television correspondent, chiefly for ''

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''. He was also a contributor to the Telegossip section of Television and Short-Wave World magazine. In 1935 he was appointed as the first ever television critic by the ''Daily Telegraph'', having already worked on the paper as their radio correspondent.Dennis Griffiths ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, pp.258-59 During

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he served as a war correspondent, and was at the

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in May 1944, and the Liberation of Amsterdam in 1945. In 1946 Gander returned to his earlier post at ''The Daily Telegraph'' as the radio and television correspondent and critic, remaining on the paper's staff until his retirement in 1970. His autobiography ''After These Many Quests'' was published in 1950. Gander was a castaway on an edition of the

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programme ''

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'' broadcast on 17 March 1969. His private papers are in the

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in London.

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1902 births Place of birth missing 1986 deaths Place of death missing British war correspondents British male journalists The Daily Telegraph people 20th-century English businesspeople {{UK-journalist-stub