MR. A. G. MACDONELL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1941, Page 11

MR. A. G. MACDONELL

POPULAR BROADCASTER

(Received January 18, 10. a.m.)

LONDON, January 17

Mr. A. G. Macdonell, the author, historian, journalist, and broadcaster, died suddenly, at the age of 45 years.

His voice was well known to a large number of listeners all over the world. Till recently he broadcast regular comments on the day's news in the British Broadcasting Corporation's overseas service.

To those talks he brought the gifts which made his name as a novelist famous—wit, satire, shrewd observation, and a wide knowledge of world affairs. He was a leading authority on Napoleon.

Archibald Gordon Macdohell, author and journalist, was born in 1895, and educated at Winchester. He held the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery (51st Highland • Division) from 1916-18. After the war he was for five years (1922-27) on the Headquarters Staff of the League of Nations Union, and in the" first two of those years contested Lincoln in the Liberal interest. His publications include "England, Their England," "Napoleon and His Marshals," "How Like an Angel," "A Visit to America," "Lords and Masters, "My- Scotland," "Autobiography of a- Cad," "The Spanish Pistol," "What Next, . Baby?" and "Flight From;-a Lady." He interested himself in golf, cricket, and' tennis.