Malcolm Muggeridge
English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist (1903–1990) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990)[1][2] was an English journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). Malcolm's brother Eric was one of the founders of Plan International. In his twenties, Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, and the experience turned him into an anti-communist.
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Born | Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-03-24)24 March 1903 Sanderstead, Surrey, England |
Died | 14 November 1990(1990-11-14) (aged 87) Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England |
Alma mater | Selwyn College, Cambridge |
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Children | 4 |
Relatives | H. T. Muggeridge (father) |
During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy, first in East Africa for two years and then in Paris. In the aftermath of the war, he converted to Christianity under the influence of Hugh Kingsmill and helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He was a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use.
Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life, which were published in 1981 under the title Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge, and he developed them into two volumes of an uncompleted autobiography Chronicles of Wasted Time.[3]