Marjorie Deane

Marjorie Deane (born 1914 in Manchester ; † October 2, 2008 ) was a British journalist .

Life

Marjorie Deane was born in Manchester in 1914 . After graduating from Withington Girls High School , she studied mathematics at London University . During the Second World War she was employed as a statistician in the Royal Navy . There she met the author John Betjeman , with whom she was friends until his death.

She joined The Economist as a chief statistician in 1947 and stayed with the magazine until she retired in 1989. She became a respected specialist in the financial industry . For the past 13 years at The Economist, she edited The Economist's Financial Report newsletter .

In 1979 she received the Harold Wincott Press Awards from the Wincott Foundation . In 1998 she founded the Foundation The Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation . The foundation offers internships with the Financial Times and The Economist.

For her "service to the financial sector" she was honored in 2006 with the award of the Member of the British Empire .

She died on October 2, 2008 at the age of 94.

Works

Stagflation . Britain's way out. The Economist Newspaper Ltd, London 1971, ISBN 0-85058-011-0 .
Economic ties in the free world . Friends of Atlantic Union, London 1953.
Deane, Marjorie and Pringle, Robert : The central banks . Hamish Hamilton, London 1994, ISBN 0-241-13326-2 (with a foreword by Paul Volcker ).

Honors

1979 Harold Wincott Press Awards
2006 Order of the British Empire

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Sue Cameron: A journalist the financial world trusted . Ed .: Financial Times . November 8, 2008 ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).
↑ The Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation (Ed.): Majorie Deane . ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d The Economist (ed.): Cheerio my deario . Financial journalism loses one of its greats. October 9, 2008 ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).
^ The Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation (ed.): The Foundation . ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).
↑ Financial Times (Ed.): Marjorie Deane Internships . ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).
↑ The Economist (ed.): Marjorie Deane internships . April 14, 2012 ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).
^ Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood (Ed.): Honors . To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order. December 30, 2005, p. 24 ( news.bbc.co.uk [PDF; 166 kB ; accessed on October 21, 2012]).

personal data
SURNAME	Deane, Marjorie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British journalist, MBE
DATE OF BIRTH	1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester
DATE OF DEATH	October 2, 2008

[ft20081108-1] A ^b Sue Cameron: A journalist the financial world trusted . Ed .: Financial Times . November 8, 2008 ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).

[2] The Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation (Ed.): Majorie Deane . ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).

[te20081009-3] The Economist (ed.): Cheerio my deario . Financial journalism loses one of its greats. October 9, 2008 ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).

[4] The Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation (ed.): The Foundation . ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).

[5] Financial Times (Ed.): Marjorie Deane Internships . ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).

[6] The Economist (ed.): Marjorie Deane internships . April 14, 2012 ( HTML [accessed October 21, 2012]).

[7] Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood (Ed.): Honors . To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order. December 30, 2005, p. 24 ( news.bbc.co.uk [PDF; 166 kB ; accessed on October 21, 2012]).