Trevor Wignall
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Trevor Charles Wignall (1881 - 1958) was an author and sportswriter.{{Cite web|last=Greenslade|first=Roy|date=2012-10-26|title=So phone hacking isn't new after all!|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/oct/26/national-newspapers-dailyexpress|website=The Guardian|language=en}}
Wignall was a lieutenant at the end of the First World War.{{cite news|title= Lieut Trevor Wignall|newspaper= Cambrian Daily Leader| location = Swansea| date = March 3, 1919 | page=1| url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4426640/4426641/15/}}
His father, James Wignall was an M.P. for the Forest of Dean between 1918 and 1925.
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.{{cite web|url=http://mark-hodder.com/blakiana/blakebibliography_1920.html|title=Blakiana: The Sexton Blake Resource}}
Wignall worked for the Cambria Daily Leader, the South Wales Daily Post, the Morning Leader, the Sporting Life and the Daily Mail. He then became the Chief Sportswriter of the Daily Express. {{cite web|last=Chandler|first=Martin|date=5 April 2020|title=Googly' of The Daily Express|url=https://www.cricketweb.net/googly-of-the-daily-express/}} 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.
The New York Times described Wignall as "once of The London Daily Express and at one time Britain's most famous sports writer".{{Cite news|last=Daley|first=Arthur|date=1944-12-09|title=Sports of the Times; The Customers Always Write|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/12/09/archives/sports-of-the-times-the-customers-always-write.html|issn=0362-4331}}
Bibliography
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=The Life Of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl|date=1921|publisher=Mills & Boon|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Wignall|first1=Trevor|title=Atoms|last2=Knox|first2=G. D|date=1923|publisher=Mills & Boon|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Thus Gods Are Made|date=1923|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=The Story Of Boxing|date=1924|publisher=Brentano's|location=New York}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Comfort O'Connor|date=1924|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=The Sweet Science|date=1926|publisher=Chapman and Hall, ld.|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Prides Of The Fancy|date=1928|publisher=Eveleigh Nash & Grayson|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Sea Green|date=1939|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=I Knew Them All|date=1939|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Never A Dull Moment|date=1941|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Ringside|date=1941|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London; Melbourne}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=One Man's Road|date=1945|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London; New York}}
- {{Cite book|last=Wignall|first=Trevor|title=Almost Yesterday|date=1949|publisher=Hutchinson|location=London}}