Anthony Bevins

Anthony John Bevins (16 August 1942 – 23 March 2001) was an English journalist, sometimes known as Tony Bevins.

He grew up in Toxteth, Liverpool, and was the son of a minister in Harold Macmillan's cabinet, Reggie Bevins. Anthony Bevins was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and the London School of Economics.

During a year in Bengal, teaching for the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), he met his wife, Mishtuni Roy, known as Mishtu; they married in a Bengal temple in 1965. Bevins started at the Liverpool Post in 1967, moved to London as its lobby correspondent in 1970, and then joined the political staff of the Sunday Express in 1973. Later that year he became The Sun'''s political correspondent. He moved to the Daily Mail in 1976. In 1981 he became chief political correspondent of The Times, but the Wapping dispute, over Rupert Murdoch's move of the paper's staff to Wapping, ended this period of his career. Bevins stood in the final union chapel meeting and told his colleagues, "I will go to Wapping with ashes in my mouth".

He left The Independent in 1993 for The Observer, but returned to The Independent in 1996, and moved again in 1998 to the Daily Express, but left the Express'' in 2000 after it was taken over "by a pornographer", Richard Desmond. It was because of his 'free spirit' that the Bevins Prize for investigative journalism was named in his honour.