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Dates: 1925-1997. Spent his early boyhood in Australia. Educated at Hastings Grammar School and Oxford. Served in the Royal Navy during the second world war. Trainee on the Daily Mail in the late 1940s. Offered the editorship of two Zambian copperbelt in-house magazines. Later co-founded the African Mail with Dr Alexander Scott. In 1964 moved to edit Lonrho's Times of Zambia. 1969-1970 - editor of 'African Development' and founding member of Gemini News Service. 1970s - wrote books; also edited The Observer magazine, covered international and domestic news for the Financial Times, and was The Observer's Commonwealth correspondent. Left The Observer 1984. Founded Africa Analysis. Dates and places: Born 22 July 1925, Margate. Died 14 November 1997. Source: Taken from Laurence Cockcroft's obituary in the Guardian, 19 November 1997.