Malcolm Muggeridge


Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge , was a British journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. As a young man, Muggeridge was a leftwing sympathiser but he later became a forceful anticommunist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy. He is credited with bringing Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West and stimulating debate about Catholic theology. In his later years he was outspoken on religious and moral issues. He wrote two volumes of an acclaimed and unfinished autobiography Chronicles of Wasted Time.

The middle of five brothers, Muggeridge was born in Sanderstead, Surrey. He grew up in Croydon and attended Selhurst High School there, and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for four years. While still a student he had taught for brief periods in 1920, 1922 and 1924 at the John Ruskin Central School, Croydon, where his father was Chairman of the Governors. After graduating in 1924 with a pass degree in natural sciences he went to India to teach English Literature.

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