Angus McGill

Angus McGill
Born26 November 1927
South Shields, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Died16 October 2015(2015-10-16) (aged 87)
United Kingdom
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Educationformer Warehousemen, Clerks’ and Drapers’ School
OccupationJournalist

Angus McGill MBE (26 November 1927 – 16 October 2015) was an English journalist who made his name writing a humorous weekly column in the London Evening Standard, which ran for 30 years documenting all that was eccentric about London life. In 1968, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, he also created a daily cartoon strip called Clive , later renamed Augusta. McGill won the British Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the Year 1968 and was appointed MBE in 1990.