Thomas Alan Margerison (13 November 1923 – 25 February 2014) was a British science
journalist
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, author, and
broadcaster who founded the magazine ''
New Scientist
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'' in 1956.
He was a science correspondent for ''
The Sunday Times
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'', which he joined in 1961.
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Biography
Margerison partnered David Frost
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to form what became London Weekend Television
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(LWT), a new ITV
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contractor from August 1968. He was LWT's first deputy managing director, becoming both chairman and chief executive of the company within two years.[ Margerison left LWT in 1971.][ He served as the chairman of ]Computer Technology Limited
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Founder Iann Barron had worked for Elliott Automation but left ...
from 1971 to 1975.[
Margerison died on 25 February 2014, aged 90.][ He was survived by his partner, journalist ]Marjorie Wallace
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, with whom he had lived since the mid-1980s, by their daughter, Sophia Margerison, and by Peter and Angus, his two sons by his ex-wife Pamela Margerison (née Tilbrook).[ His ashes are buried on the east side of ]Highgate Cemetery
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.
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1923 births
2014 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
British male writers
British non-fiction writers
British reporters and correspondents
British science journalists
The Sunday Times people
British male non-fiction writers
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