Trevor Charles Wignall (1881 - 1958) was an author and sportswriter. Wignall was a

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at the end of the

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. His father,

James Wignall James Wignall (21 July 1856 – 10 June 1925) was a British Labour Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for seven years from 1918 to 1925. In 1893 Wignall was appointed Secretary of the Swansea branches of the Dockers' Union and be ...

was an

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for the

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between 1918 and 1925. In 1920 he wrote two stories for The Sexton Blake Library: ''The Case of The Japanese Detective'' in SBL #119 and ''The House with the Red Blinds'' for SBL #143. Wignall worked for the Cambria Daily Leader, the South Wales Daily Post, the

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, the Sporting Life and the

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. He then became the Chief Sportswriter of the

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. While he was at The Daily Express in the 1930s, William Pollock the paper's cricket correspondent, stated that Wignall was earning more than £100 a week. The

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described Wignall as "once of The London Daily Express and at one time Britain's most famous sports writer".

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20th-century British journalists {{DEFAULTSORT:Wignall, Trevor 1881 births 1958 deaths Authors of Sexton Blake