William John Camkin, MA (23 June 1922 – 19 June 1998) was an English journalist, football, business and sports administrator. Camkin was born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the son of Bill Camkin and Helena Ethel Holder. His father was managing...
La Jolla resident Fred Tupper, who covered 13 summer and winter Olympics for the New York Times and was a renowned tennis and golf writer, died Thursday 18th December, 1986 in an El Cajon convalescent home after a long illness. He was 75. A London-based executive with...
NB – Still reasarching details – Secretary 3/2021 Pat Ward-Thomas- Born 1913, Died 1982 (Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Images) Not Only Golf (1981) The selections in The Lay of the Land are chosen from the best essays in the three books...
Henry Carpenter Longhurst (18 March 1909 – 21 July 1978) was a British-born golf writer and commentator. For 45 years, he was golfing correspondent of the Sunday Times. During World War II, Longhurst was also a member of parliament (MP)...
Eleanor E Helme – Founding member of the AGW Born in Cobham, Surrey on 30th December, 1887, Eleanor Helme was the youngest of four children. Her father had been a merchant with the East India Company and a J.P. for Surrey. Her brother Thomas died in 1918 as a...
Bernard Darwin – One of the founding members and first President of the Association of Golf Writers Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (Born 7 September 1876 – Died 18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was...
Major Sir Guy Colin Campbell Major Sir Guy Colin Campbell was born on Jan 31, 1885 in Berkely Square, London and passed away on Oct 2, 1960 in Irvington, Virginia (aged 75). He went to the University of St. Andrews and also lived, worked and played extensive golf in...
Charles Murray Buchan (22 September 1891 – 25 June 1960) was an English footballer, sporting journalist and commentator. He was also one of the founding members of the Association of Golf Writers. Buchan started his career in 1909 with Woolwich Arsenal...
Enid Wilson, British ladies champion (1931-33), c1930s, with her dog Stanley. She would later become women’s golf correspondent for The Telegraph. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Enid Wilson ( Born at Stone Broom, near Alfreton,...
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