Bloodworth, Dennis (1919– 2005) Journalist and author. Born in London, Dennis Bloodworth was educated at Birchington House Preparatory School and Sevenoaks. He left school at the age of 17 and took up a variety of jobs, including pig- food analyst, press photographer, junior reporter and sub- editor. He served in World War II and joined The Observer as an assistant to the chief Paris correspondent in 1949. In 1954, he was posted to Saigon to cover the Indo- Chinese conflict and in 1956, he moved to Singapore as chief Far East correspondent of The Observer, a post he held until 1981.

Bloodworth wrote five books on the region: The Chinese Looking Glass (1967); An Eye For the Dragon (1970); The Messiah and the Mandarins (1982); Reporter’s Notebook (1988); and The Tiger and the Trojan Horse (1986). He also co- wrote three books with his wife, Liang Ching Ping, herself a noted radio commentator and journalist: Heirs Apparent (1973); The Chinese Machiavelli (1976); and I Married A Barbarian (2000). Bloodworth was also responsible for editing the first volume of Lee Kuan Yew’s memoirs, The Singapore Story (2000). He wrote five works of fiction, including Any Number Can Play (1972) and its sequel, The Clients of Omega (1975); Have a Nice Day (1992); and Trapdoor (1980).