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Annie Roycroft was born on 2 May, 1926 in Bangor, Co Down, is an Ireland's first female newspaper editor. Discover Annie Roycroft's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

Popular As Annie Roycroft
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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 2 May, 1926
Birthday 2 May
Birthplace Bangor, Co Down
Date of death 2019
Died Place Cork
Nationality Ireland

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1926

Annie Roycroft (2 May 1926 – 11 January 2019), was Ireland's first female newspaper editor, working for the County Down Spectator.

Born Annie Roslyn Roycroft in Bangor, County Down, in May 1926 Roycroft was the fifth of six children born to Kerry woman Annie Stephens and her husband, Cork man Tom Roycroft.

He had worked in the Royal Irish Constabulary which had taken him to County Down.

1941

Roycroft got her education with Bangor Central Public Elementary School and Technical College before going on to get a job with the local newspaper, the County Down Spectator in 1941.

Roycroft began as a junior office assistant but showed a journalists instincts and learned journalistic skills by typing up the reports dictated by the newspapers journalists.

1952

She began submitting local news stories and in 1952 she was taken on as a journalist despite misgivings among the teams locally about a woman working in the field.

She then took a break working as a clerk for North Down Rural Council before being asked to return as the editor for the Spectator.

A member of the National Union of Journalists, so that she knew how to pay her journalists properly, Roycroft had a reputation of standing her ground during reporting of the Troubles.

1983

She left County Down and her role as editor in 1983 when she married Joe Stephens and eventually moved to Cork.

Roycroft was very involved in the Church of Ireland.

She had been a Sunday school teacher from the age of 16.

When she moved to Cork she turned her time to working with the church.

1995

Roycroft wrote her memoirs, Memoirs of a Scribbler, in 1995.

She is remembered in the book Bangor In The Eighties which is dedicated to her.

2019

Her husband died before her and Roycroft died in Beaumont, Cork in 2019.