Hugh Massingberd, Daily Telegraph obituary writer, 60
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007 11:52 pmLONDON — Hugh Massingberd, who developed the obituary into entertaining and irreverent brilliance at The Daily Telegraph, died Tuesday.
Massingberd, 60, had been diagnosed with cancer in 2004.
His term as obituaries editor, from 1986 to 1994, was “just a lucky time … a time when so many legends of the century were dying,” Massingberd said in 1996. …
Massingberd’s creed was that an obituary should give pleasure to relatives and friends, as well as the general reader. … Read full obituary
