Person    | Female  Born 28/11/1928  Died 10/4/1989

Anne Sharpley

Journalist. At art school in York in the 1940s she won a competition organised by Vogue which was the start of her career as a journalist. Investigative reporter on the Evening Standard in the 60s.

From the 47 Shoe Lane Blog at WordPress.com we learn that she was a 'Leading investigative journalist with the Evening Standard. Retired from full-time employment in 1973 after contracting a recurrent tropical fever, though in 1975 she found herself reporting as an eye witness the siege of Balcombe Street where IRA gunmen had taken refuge and where Anne was a resident; she continued to freelance. According to The Encyclopaedia of the British Press (Macmillan 1992), as “a close friend of Lord Beaverbrook in his last years, she left instruction that her autobiography must not appear until the year 2028 when, had she lived, she would have been 100 years old”.

She was born on 28 November 1928, her birth being registered in the 4th quarter of 1928 in the Andover Registration District, Hampshire, where her mother's maiden name was recorded as Pender. 

Probate records confirm her address had been Flat 3, 76 Balcombe Street, London, NW1 and that she died, aged 60 years, on 10 April 1989. Probate was granted on 17 October 1989 and her effects totalled £203,323. Her death was registered in April 1989 in the Fulham Registration District, London.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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