About James Margach
Lived 1910 – 1979 (aged 68–69). James Margach was a journalist.
James Dunbar Margach CBE (1910 – 23 March 1979) was a British journalist.
He was born in Elgin, Scotland and began his career in journalism, aged 22, as the Westminster correspondent for the Aberdeen Free Press and Journal. In this role he got to know Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin, both of whom told him sensitive political information.
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1969 Birthday Honours.
Works How Parliament Works (London: Tom Stacey, 1972). The Abuse of Power: The War between Downing Street and the Media from Lloyd George to James Callaghan (London: Allen Lane, 1978). The Anatomy of Power: An Enquiry into the Personality of Leadership (London: Allen Lane, 1979).
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20th century British political journalist
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James Margach was born in 1910.
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