Just received: It is with much sadness, that the death of Graham Macbeth is announced. Graham, aged 88, died at his Wareham, Dorset home on the morning of 23 February 2016. Between 1955-66 he worked for the British Automobile Racing Club as successively press officer, general secretary and competitions manager - working most notably at Goodwood during that period. He was also a former honorary secretary of The Guild of Motoring Writers, having been a member for just over 60 years, elected to membership in November 1955, becoming assistant honorary secretary in 1962 before taking on the role of honorary secretary in 1976. A life member, he was chairman in 1974 and made a vice-president in 2008.
Graham had been a motoring writer since completing his apprenticeship in 1950 as a reporter on the East Grinstead Observer and Sussex Express County Herald. From then until 1980 he was the motoring correspondent for the Brighton Evening Argus. At the same time Between 1967 and 1979 he was press officer at Brands Hatch and its associated group of motor racing circuits. He joined Practical Motorist magazine in 1979 as assistant editor, then deputy editor 1986-93.
Sincere condolences to his family and friends...
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