![]() ![]() Between 19 he edited the Saltire Society's magazine New Saltire. ![]() Career Journalism Īfter graduating from Oxford he became a reporter with the Scottish Daily Express and The Scotsman. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was in the school's marching brass band, and at Jesus College, Oxford. Magnusson lived with his family in John Street, Joppa, an eastern suburb of Edinburgh. In Scotland his family adopted a British naming convention, and from childhood Magnus used his father's patronymic as a surname. Magnús Sigursteinsson was born in Reykjavík on 12 October 1929, but grew up in Edinburgh, where his father, Sigursteinn Magnússon, was the Icelandic consul. His catchphrase "I've started, so I'll finish" was said whenever the time for questioning a contestant ran out while he was reading a question on the show. He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist and was the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind for 25 years. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship. Magnus Magnusson, KBE (born Magnús Sigursteinsson 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. ![]()
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