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Tuesday, August 28, 2012


The reason the obituaries in The London Telegraph changed the way obituaries were written: this guy:
But above all the credit for coming up with a page upon which so many people wish to appear, even if they know they will never see the result themselves, must lie with former Telegraph staffer Hugh Massingberd. He entirely recast the paper’s obituaries in 1986, championing the illuminating anecdote over the dusty details of the curriculum vitae. His insatiable thirst for the Wodehousian character sketch, underpinned by what his own obituary (he died in 2007) described as an “encyclopedic knowledge”, has been the model for each of his successors.
His obit here.

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