![]() ![]() Magnus Magnusson, who has died aged 77 of pancreatic cancer, was best known as the presiding inquisitor of BBC1 television's quiz show Mastermind, memorable for the daunting black leather chair in which contestants were interrogated and for Magnusson's catchphrase, "I've started, so I'll finish." The show overshadowed his work as a journalist and author or translator of more than 30 books, but it brought him the national fame which he used to serve his pet causes, among them archaeology, Bible history, conservation and the study of birds. He was chairman not of the Scottish National Conservancy Council, but of the Natural Conservancy Council for Scotland, which in 1992 became Scottish Natural Heritage. ![]() Magnus Magnusson edited the Chambers Biographical Dictionary, not Biological Dictionary as we said in the article below. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday January 11 2007 Magnus Magnusson was chairman of the Nature (not Natural) Conservancy Council for Scotland, as the correction to the article below stated. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday January 12 2007 ![]()
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