Mamie Magnusson

Mamie Ian Magnusson (née Baird; 24 October 1925 – 12 April 2012) was a pioneering Scottish newspaper journalist and author.

Early life Baird and her twin sister Anna were born to a working class household in Rutherglen in 1925.

Baird's middle name, Ian, was because her father, John (a caretaker 2at Bankhead Primary School) had been expecting a boy. working for The Sunday Post in the nineteen forties before eventually being headhunted in 1947 by the Scottish Daily Express, the biggest selling daily newspaper of the time.

Her eldest daughter, broadcaster Sally Magnusson, has since written a memoir, Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything.

Legacy In 1982, The Glasgow Herald columnist Jack Webster wrote of Baird:“Her secret springs from a wonderfully observant eye... She stood in her own right as Mamie Baird, one of the finest journalists of her day.”