Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge

Actor 1903-03-24 Sanderstead, Surrey, England

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a prominent socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). In his twenties, Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, and the experience turned him into a forceful anti-communist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy, first in East Afri...