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Born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, he spent much of his childhood in Malta and Egypt, where his father was stationed with the Royal Air Force.
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Hugh Scully
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He is best known as the host of the British Broadcasting Corporation show Antiques Roadshow from 1981 to 2000. He was sent to boarding school in Bath at the age of 13, and after leaving worked for a period with the piano company Steinway & Sons. He auditioned successfully as a temporary newsreader on British Broadcasting Corporation radio, and made his first radio appearance reporting from Southampton in 1963.
Always a freelance journalist rather than an employee, he worked on British Broadcasting Corporation news magazines and was a presenter on the British Broadcasting Corporation South West news programme Spotlight from 1965, before joining the networked news programme Nationwide.
After a producer discovered that he collected antiques, he became chairman of the radio show Talking about Antiques in 1967 and Collector"s World in 1970. Scully was chosen in 1981 to present Antiques Roadshow, along with Arthur Negus.
Negus retired in 1983, and Scully was the sole host on that show for 17 years. He resigned as presenter in 2000, to join Internet auction company QXL.com and help launch its on-line antiques business, and was replaced by Michael Aspel.
From 1988, Scully ran a television production company, Fine Art Productions, and he also hosted a segment on Britain"s Finest.
Scully died on 8 October 2015 at his home near Truro in Cornwall.
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