Ian Angus (librarian)
{{Short description|British librarian and Orwellian scholar (1926–2022)}}
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Ian Angus (1926 – 30 October 2022) was a British librarian and a scholar on George Orwell.Spurling, Hilary (2003) [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3594331/He-looked-for-trouble.html "He looked for trouble"] The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
Life
Once the Librarian at King's College London,[https://archive.today/20130620053534/http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s5-XXXII/4/372.extract "George Orwell's Down and Out in Proof" in The Library (1977) s5-XXXII (4): 372-376.] The Library. Retrieved 17 June 2013. while Deputy Librarian at University College London, in 1968 Angus edited, with Sonia Orwell, Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters, published by Secker & Warburg.Taylor, D J (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=HWlRm5yz3hkC&pg=PT12 Orwell: The Life. Random House.] At Google Books. Retrieved 17 June 2013.[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/162699.article "Orwell's every word"] Times Higher Education. Retrieved 17 June 2013. While at University College, he helped set up the Orwell Archive.Leab, Daniel J. [http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/collections/orwell/leab.html "George Orwell An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab. Brown University, Fall 1997. Collector's Note"] Brown University. Retrieved 17 June 2013.[http://theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/about-orwell/d-j-taylor-an-oxfordshire-tomb/ "D. J. Taylor: An Oxfordshire Tomb"] The Orwell Prize. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
In 1976 he became the second husband of the ceramics artist Ann Stokes. Ann had a second studio in Italy where they spent time with Ian tending to their olive trees. The marriage was said to be happy.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/14/ann-stokes|title=Ann Stokes obituary|last=Harrod|first=Tanya|date=14 May 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=14 August 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
Angus later assisted Peter Davison and Sheila Davison in editing the 20-volume work, The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker and Warburg).Garton Ash, Timothy (1998) [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1998/oct/22/orwell-in-1998/?pagination=false "Orwell in 1998"] The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
Angus died on 30 October 2022, at the age of 96.{{cite news |title=Ian Angus death notice |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-november-12-2022-zxq9wg3bz |access-date=12 November 2022 |publisher=The Times |date=12 November 2022}}