Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (Sanderstead, South Croydon, England 24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was a British journalist, author, satirist, media personality, soldier-spy and, in his later years, a Christian convert and writer.
His father, H.T. Muggeridge, was a prominent Labour councillor in Croydon, South London, a founder-member of the Fabian Society, and for a short time, Member of Parliament for Romford in Ramsay MacDonald's second labour g...
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (Sanderstead, South Croydon, England 24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was a British journalist, author, satirist, media personality, soldier-spy and, in his later years, a Christian convert and writer.
His father, H.T. Muggeridge, was a prominent Labour councillor in Croydon, South London, a founder-member of the Fabian Society, and for a short time, Member of Parliament for Romford in Ramsay MacDonald's second labour government. His mother was Annie Booler.
Malcolm, one of five boys, attended Selhurst Grammar School and Selwyn College, Cambridge for four years, graduating in 1924 with a pass degree in natural sciences. He then went to India to teach. While still a student he had taught for brief periods in 1920, 1922 and 1924 at the John Ruskin Central School, Croydon, where his father was Chairman of the Governors.
Returning to England in 1927, he married Katherine Dobbs (1903–1994), also called Kathleen or Kitty, whose mother Rosalind Dobbs was a...
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