Rory MacPherson, ITN diplomatic correspondent and newsreader in the 1970s – obituary
He cut an authoritative figure on screen, having come from a career as a diplomat that included service during the Cuban missile crisis
Rory MacPherson
Rory MacPherson, who has died aged 85, was diplomatic correspondent and a newscaster for ITN during its heyday in the 1970s.
Before the arrival of Anna Ford in 1978, Richard Ingrams lamented in The Spectator: “Like the member of some agreeable old club which has decided finally to let women in, I have been savouring the last days of the all-male ITN … There may be only a few days left in which to enjoy the last news bulletins not to be read out by high-pitched women, but by nice quietly-spoken, soothing gentlemen with the right sort of accents like Reggie Bosanquet, Sandy Gall and Rory MacPherson.”
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Scots widow calls for assisted dying to be legalised in Scotland after husband travelled to Switzerland to end his life
Richard died at Dignitas in Zurich on September 6, 2019, after battling motor neurone disease for five years.
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