Anthony Lejeune

Edward Anthony Thompson (7 August 1928 – 3 March 2018), known as Anthony Lejeune, was an English writer, editor, and broadcaster. He was known for his weekly radio talk London Letter that was broadcast in South Africa for nearly 30 years and for his crime novels and writing about the history of London's gentleman's clubs. He also produced a number of political books written from a conservative point of view. He was described by The Times as "always out of period, a misfit in the modern world for whom the term 'young fogey' might have been invented". on 7 August 1928 to the journalist and editor Edward Roffe Thompson, and Caroline Alice Lejeune, a film reviewer for The Observer. He wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph colour magazine in the 1970s and 1980s and was the London correspondent for New York's conservative National Review for over 40 years. which he described as "a peculiarly English institution".

In 1991 he edited a reader of his mother's film criticism and in 1998 he edited The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations for Tom Stacey that was subsequently reissued in five different language volumes in 2007. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the novels of Rider Haggard.

Later life Lejeune was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2010 and resigned from his five clubs. He died from complications of the disease on 3 March 2018 and received obituaries in The Times and The Daily Telegraph.

Selected publications Fiction Crowded and Dangerous. Macdonald, London, 1959. Mr Diabolo. Macdonald, London, 1960. News of Murder. Macdonald, London, 1961. Duel in the Shadows. Macdonald, London, 1962. Glint of Spears. Macdonald, London, 1963. The Dark Trade. Macdonald, London, 1965. A Strange and Private War. Macmillan, London, 1986. Professor in Peril. Macmillan, London, 1987. Key Without a Door. Macmillan, London, 1988.

Non-fiction Freedom and the Politicians. Michael Joseph, London, 1964. Shadow over Britain – An Examination of Labour Party Policy and Socialist Leaders. Christopher Johnson, 1964. Socialized Medicine: Showcase of Failure. Constitutional Alliance, 1969. The Gentlemen's Clubs of London. MacDonald and Jane's, 1979. White's: The First Three Hundred Years. A & C Black, London, 1993.

Edited Time and Tide Anthology. Deutsch, London, 1956. J. Enoch Powell. Income Tax at 4/3 In The £. Tom Stacey, London, 1970. The Case for South West Africa. Tom Stacey, London, 1971. The C.A. Lejeune Film Reader. Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1991. The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations. Stacey International, 1998. Quote Unquote: French. Stacey International, 2007. Quote Unquote: German. Stacey International, 2007. Quote Unquote: Italian. Stacey International, 2007. Quote Unquote: Latin. Stacey International, 2007. Quote Unquote: Spanish. Stacey International, 2007.