Ian Angus (librarian)

For other people with the same name, see Ian Angus (disambiguation).

Ian Angus (1926 – 30 October 2022) was a British librarian and a scholar on George Orwell.^[1]

Life

Once the Librarian at King's College London,^[2] while Deputy Librarian at University College London, in 1968 Angus edited, with Sonia Orwell, Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters, published by Secker & Warburg.^[3][4] While at University College, he helped set up the Orwell Archive.^[5][6]

In 1976 he became the second husband of the ceramics artist Ann Stokes. Ann had a second studio in Italy where they spent time with Ian tending to their olive trees. The marriage was said to be happy.^[7]

Angus later assisted Peter Davison and Sheila Davison in editing the 20-volume work, The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker and Warburg).^[8]

Angus died on 30 October 2022, at the age of 96.^[9]