Trevor Wignall

Trevor Charles Wignall (1881 - 1958) was an author and sportswriter.^[1]

Wignall was a lieutenant at the end of the First World War.^[2] His father, James Wignall was an M.P. for the Forest of Dean between 1918 and 1925.^[2]

In 1920 he wrote two stories for The Sexton Blake Library: The Case of The Japanese Detective in SBL #119 and The House with the Red Blinds for SBL #143.^[3]

Wignall worked for the Cambria Daily Leader, the South Wales Daily Post, the Morning Leader, the Sporting Life and the Daily Mail.^[1] He then became the Chief Sportswriter of the Daily Express.^[4] While he was at The Daily Express in the 1930s, William Pollock the paper's cricket correspondent, stated that Wignall was earning more than £100 a week.^[4]

The New York Times described Wignall as "once of The London Daily Express and at one time Britain's most famous sports writer".^[5]

Bibliography

• Wignall, Trevor (1921). The Life Of Commander Sir Edward Nicholl. London: Mills & Boon.
• Wignall, Trevor; Knox, G. D (1923). Atoms. London: Mills & Boon.
• Wignall, Trevor (1923). Thus Gods Are Made. London: Hutchinson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1924). The Story Of Boxing. New York: Brentano's.
• Wignall, Trevor (1924). Comfort O'Connor. London: Hutchinson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1926). The Sweet Science. London: Chapman and Hall, ld.
• Wignall, Trevor (1928). Prides Of The Fancy. London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1939). Sea Green. London: Hutchinson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1939). I Knew Them All. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Wignall, Trevor (1941). Never A Dull Moment. London: Hutchinson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1941). Ringside. London; Melbourne: Hutchinson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1945). One Man's Road. London; New York: Hutchinson.
• Wignall, Trevor (1949). Almost Yesterday. London: Hutchinson.

References

1. Greenslade, Roy (26 October 2012). "So phone hacking isn't new after all!". The Guardian.
2. "Lieut Trevor Wignall". Cambrian Daily Leader. Swansea. 3 March 1919. p. 1.
3. "Blakiana: The Sexton Blake Resource".
4. Chandler, Martin (5 April 2020). "Googly' of The Daily Express".
5. Daley, Arthur (9 December 1944). "Sports of the Times; The Customers Always Write". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.