Trevor Charles Wignall (1881 - 1958) was an author and sportswriter. [1]
Wignall was a lieutenant at the end of the First World War. [2] His father, James Wignall was an M.P. for the Forest of Dean between 1918 and 1925. [2]
In 1920 he wrote two stories for The Sexton Blake Library: The Case of The Japanese Detective in SBL #119 and The House with the Red Blinds for SBL #143. [3]
Wignall worked for the Cambria Daily Leader, the South Wales Daily Post, the Morning Leader, the Sporting Life and the Daily Mail. [1] He then became the Chief Sportswriter of the Daily Express. [4] While he was at The Daily Express in the 1930s, William Pollock the paper's cricket correspondent, stated that Wignall was earning more than £100 a week. [4]
The New York Times described Wignall as "once of The London Daily Express and at one time Britain's most famous sports writer". [5]
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link)Trevor Charles Wignall (1881 - 1958) was an author and sportswriter. [1]
Wignall was a lieutenant at the end of the First World War. [2] His father, James Wignall was an M.P. for the Forest of Dean between 1918 and 1925. [2]
In 1920 he wrote two stories for The Sexton Blake Library: The Case of The Japanese Detective in SBL #119 and The House with the Red Blinds for SBL #143. [3]
Wignall worked for the Cambria Daily Leader, the South Wales Daily Post, the Morning Leader, the Sporting Life and the Daily Mail. [1] He then became the Chief Sportswriter of the Daily Express. [4] While he was at The Daily Express in the 1930s, William Pollock the paper's cricket correspondent, stated that Wignall was earning more than £100 a week. [4]
The New York Times described Wignall as "once of The London Daily Express and at one time Britain's most famous sports writer". [5]
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