29 Facts About Reginald Bosanquet

Reginald Tindal Kennedy Bosanquet was a British journalist and broadcaster who was an anchor of the half-hour News at Ten bulletin for Independent Television News from July 1967 to November 1979.

Reginald Bosanquet began working for ITN as a sub-editor in 1955 and was made a reporter two years later.

Reginald Bosanquet was born in Chertsey, Surrey, on 9 August 1932, the only child of Bernard Reginald Bosanquet, the cricketer who invented the googly.

Reginald Bosanquet was of Huguenot descent through two refugees who became financially successful silk merchants.

Reginald Bosanquet became an orphan at the age of seven, and was evacuated to Canada during the Second World War.

In Canada, Reginald Bosanquet was educated at Ashbury College in Ottawa and then at Lower Canada College in Montreal.

Reginald Bosanquet won a scholarship to attend New College at the University of Oxford, where he studied history.

Reginald Bosanquet graduated with a second-class degree and did his two years of national service with the first battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Germany.

In 1955, after leaving Oxford, Reginald Bosanquet was encouraged to go into television by Lord Clark and Huw Wheldon.

Reginald Bosanquet asked Independent Television News for a job, telling them he wanted fame to which they replied that he could begin working for them as a tea-boy.

Reginald Bosanquet was recruited by Aidan Crawley, and soon became a sub-editor and was made a reporter in 1957.

Reginald Bosanquet worked on programmes such as Roving Report between 1957 and 1962, Dateline London from 1961 to 1962 and Dateline as a newsreader from 1962 to 1967.

Reginald Bosanquet visited 52 countries in the course of his reporting career.

Reginald Bosanquet was made one of the lead anchors of the half-hour ITV News at Ten nightly bulletin when it launched on 3 July 1967.

Reginald Bosanquet often worked alongside Andrew Gardner, Leonard Parkin, Sandy Gall and, mostly late in his tenure, Alastair Burnet.

Reginald Bosanquet served as ITN's chief newsreader from 1974 to 1976, but was suspended for a month by ITN editor Nigel Ryan in May 1976 following revelations about his marital troubles that were published in a Sunday newspaper.

Reginald Bosanquet made his final on-screen appearance for ITN on 8 November 1979.

Reginald Bosanquet then resigned from ITN, amid claims and denials and rows in the studio but he explained that he no longer wanted to do the job.

Reginald Bosanquet made a second set of three film reports for Nationwide on fashion, the aristocracy, and wine that were shown later in the year.

Reginald Bosanquet was elected the 110th rector of the University of Glasgow on 3 November 1980.

In 1980, Reginald Bosanquet "sang" the lyrics on the disco single "Dance with Me".

Reginald Bosanquet's autobiography Let's Get Through Wednesday ghostwritten by Wallace Reyburn was published in September 1980.

Reginald Bosanquet was the author of the 1982 children's book Filboyd's Frogs.

Reginald Bosanquet was the patron of the Campaign for Equality in Divorce, and was a member of the World Wildlife Fund's Administrative Panel.

Reginald Bosanquet had one child each from his first two marriages.

In late 1978, a woman claimed that Reginald Bosanquet was the biological father of her third child.

Reginald Bosanquet died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Chelsea on the evening of 27 May 1984 following a period of ill health.

In 1970, Reginald Bosanquet made an uncredited cameo appearance in the second series of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Reginald Bosanquet is portrayed by Matthew Cottle in the 2022 miniseries Pistol.