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He was brought up by a socialist father who was also a councilor for Croydon and later a Member of Parliament.

He attended Selwyn College at Cambridge University, graduating in 1924, and went to India to teach. While still a student he had taught for brief periods in 1920, 1922 and 1924 at the John Ruskin Central School, Croydon, where his father was Chairman of the Governors.

Returning to England in 1927, he married Katherine Dobbs and worked as a supply teacher, before moving to teach in EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797 six months later. Here he also worked as a journalist for the first time.

After working on various papers including the Calcutta Statesman, Manchester Guardian, Evening Standard, and Daily Telegraph, he became a popular BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation BBC is primarily a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom, which also has some international services. Some of the international services (such as BBC cable TV in America, Canada and elsewhere correspondent.

Muggeridge was also the "discoverer" of Mother TeresaMother Teresa of Calcutta ( August 27 1910 September 5 1997) was a world famous Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity whose work among the poor of Calcutta was widely reported. She was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace, whom he first met in London in 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the. He told the world about her deeds through a book called Something Beautiful for God. He was well-known for his wit and profound writings ("Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream"). He wrote a two volume autobiography called Chronicles of Wasted Time.

In A Third Testament, he profiles seven spiritual thinkers who influenced his life: Augustine of HippoAurelius Augustinus Augustine of Hippo ( 354 430) is a saint and the pre-eminent Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism; he was the eldest son of Saint Monica. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, which does not accept all of his teachings, he is, William Blake, Blaise Pascal, Leo Tolstoy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Søren Kierkegaard, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Having been a high-profile agnostic for most of his life, he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 79.