Ian Angus (1926 – 30 October 2022) was a British librarian and a scholar on George Orwell.Spurling, Hilary (2003) "He looked for trouble" The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
Life Once the Librarian at King's College London, The Library. Retrieved 17 June 2013. while Deputy Librarian at University College London, in 1968 Angus edited, with Sonia Orwell, Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters, published by Secker & Warburg.Taylor, D J (2010) Orwell: The Life. Random House. At Google Books. Retrieved 17 June 2013."Orwell's every word" Times Higher Education. Retrieved 17 June 2013. While at University College, he helped set up the Orwell Archive.Leab, Daniel J. "George Orwell An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab. Brown University, Fall 1997. Collector's Note" Brown University. Retrieved 17 June 2013."D. J. Taylor: An Oxfordshire Tomb" The Orwell Prize. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
In 1976 he became the second husband of the ceramics artist Ann Stokes. Ann had a second studio in Italy where they spent time with Ian tending to their olive trees. The marriage was said to be happy.
Angus later assisted Peter Davison and Sheila Davison in editing the 20-volume work, The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker and Warburg).Garton Ash, Timothy (1998) "Orwell in 1998" The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
Angus died on 30 October 2022, at the age of 96.
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