Background
He was born in Normanby, Ryedale, North Yorkshire and attended Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset.
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David Lomax
David Richard Lomax was a British television reporter and interviewer.
Education
Brasenose College.
Career
He was best known for his contributions as a reporter to the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Panorama current affairs series. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford with a history degree. Lomax obtained a British Broadcasting Corporation traineeship as a presenter and was a reporter on Nationwide from the late 1960s and also reported for other British Broadcasting Corporation current affairs programmes and election night broadcasts.
His notable interviewees on Panorama included Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe and Steve Jobs of Apple Incorporated. who walked out of his interview.
He also made a critical report for Newsnight about the Eurofighter Typhoon project He was named journalist of the year in 1986 and retired to Dartmoor, Devon.
He had previously lived for many years near Theale, in Berkshire, where among other activities he kept bees. Foreign most of his life he was an avid sailor, and completed many cruises in Arctic waters, as well as an Atlantic crossing.
He died aged 76 on 5 September 2014.
Achievements
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He was then called up for National Service in the Royal Air Force and served as a jet pilot achieving the rank of Pilot Officer.
