LJK Setright Obituary
Sep 17th 2005, 11:28 am
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LJK Setright Obituary
It's a sad loss, Jeremy Clarkson just isn't the same.
In the Daily Telegraph today
LJK Setright, who died on September 7 aged 74, was Britain's best-known and most eloquent motoring journalist and author, famous in an era before car experts could win easy notoriety on TV; he was "discovered" by a loyal readership within a year or two of taking up writing as a career in the mid-1960s, and maintained his reputation for erudition, mixed with an air of mystery, until he died......................
In the Daily Telegraph today
LJK Setright, who died on September 7 aged 74, was Britain's best-known and most eloquent motoring journalist and author, famous in an era before car experts could win easy notoriety on TV; he was "discovered" by a loyal readership within a year or two of taking up writing as a career in the mid-1960s, and maintained his reputation for erudition, mixed with an air of mystery, until he died......................
Sep 17th 2005, 1:32 pm
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Re: LJK Setright Obituary
Never heard of him.
Sep 17th 2005, 2:24 pm
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Re: LJK Setright Obituary
Originally Posted by Thydney
Never heard of him.
Sep 17th 2005, 2:35 pm
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Re: LJK Setright Obituary
Didn't say I was proud. Should have said who gives a ****
Sep 17th 2005, 5:46 pm
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Re: LJK Setright Obituary
Originally Posted by TRPardoe
It's a sad loss, Jeremy Clarkson just isn't the same.
In the Daily Telegraph today
LJK Setright, who died on September 7 aged 74, was Britain's best-known and most eloquent motoring journalist and author, famous in an era before car experts could win easy notoriety on TV; he was "discovered" by a loyal readership within a year or two of taking up writing as a career in the mid-1960s, and maintained his reputation for erudition, mixed with an air of mystery, until he died......................
In the Daily Telegraph today
LJK Setright, who died on September 7 aged 74, was Britain's best-known and most eloquent motoring journalist and author, famous in an era before car experts could win easy notoriety on TV; he was "discovered" by a loyal readership within a year or two of taking up writing as a career in the mid-1960s, and maintained his reputation for erudition, mixed with an air of mystery, until he died......................
was reading him only recently in car and driver anniversary edition - didn't realize he had passed but remember reading him in Car mag in the UK growing up
