Michael Davie

Michael Davie

Michael Davie (15 January 1924 Cranleigh, Surrey – 7 December 2005,[1] Ewelme, Oxfordshire) was a British journalist.

Davie was the last of three children born to the head of a firm of stockbrokers.[2] Davie was educated at Haileybury public school and Merton College, Oxford. where he began reading English, but after war service in the Royal Navy, returned to study History.[3] Davie was offered a job as diplomatic correspondent by David Astor, editor of The Observer before he graduated, but the post had been filled by the time he had done so.[4]

After a brief period at the Manchester Evening News, he joined The Observer in 1950 as religious correspondent.[3] Davie subsequently became the newspaper's news editor, sports writer and editor of the colour supplement when it was first published in 1965.[4] Close to Astor, he was appointed deputy editor of the newspaper, a posiyion he retained until 1969. He the returned to writing, still on The Observer staff, where he edited the 'Notebook' feature. Davie was the editor of the diaries of novelist Evelyn Waugh, the volume appeared in 1976. That year he won the What the Papers Say 'Journalist of the Year' Award.[5]

In 1977 he settled in Melbourne, Australia, where he became Associate Editor of The Age, becoming the newspaper's editor in 1979, a post he retained until returning to London and The Observer in 1981 for the remainder of his career. Davie retired in 1988.[5]

Following his retirement, he wrote a biography of the press baron Lord Beaverbrook with his wife which was published in 1992. His other books include a study of President Lyndon B. Johnson LBJ (1966); In the Future Now (1972), an account of sun-rise industries in California; The Titanic (1986) and (with his son Simon) The Faber Book of Cricket (1987).[6] His final completed book was Anglo-Australian Attitudes published in 2000.

Michael Davie married twice, his wife from 1975 was the writer and journalist Anne Chisholm. With his first wife (Robin Atherton) he had a son and two daughters, and an adopted son (who predeceased him) with his second.[5]

References

  1. ^ John Thompson "http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/dec/14/pressandpublishing.obituaries", The Guardian, 14 December 2005
  2. ^ "Michael Davie", The Times, 12 December 2005
  3. ^ a b Obituary: Michael Davie, Daily Tlegraph, 15 December 2005
  4. ^ a b Donald Trelford "Michael Davie, writer from a golden age", The Observer, 11 December 2005
  5. ^ a b c Michael Leapman "Michael Davie", The Independent, 8 December 2005
  6. ^ Dennis Griffiths (ed) The Encyclopedia of the Britiash Press, 1492-1992, London: Macmillan, 1992, p.191
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Preceded by
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Deputy Editor of The Observer
1965 - 1969
Succeeded by
Donald Trelford

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