Ted Deacon
Alink with the Spectator's Gower Street days has been broken by the death of Mr E.T. Deacon, for many years the magazine's sales manager. He joined the staff when John St Loe Strachey was editor, in the days when the office (then in York Street, Covent Garden) was graced by a housekeeper and even, it is said, a butler. His 50 years on the magazine, under II editors, were interrupted only by war service in the Middle East and Italy. Old Spectator hands will not forget his unfailingly genial and courteous manner, nor his forays from 99 Gower Street every Thursday at the head of a small convoy of taxis to do the rounds of London stations and bookstalls with the Spectator fresh from the press. His retirement was un- happily overshadowed by illness, but his last years were eased by the devoted nursing of his wife Grace. Ted Deacon leaves many happy memories behind him.
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