Antiques Roadshow presenter Hugh Scully dies at his Cornish home
| Posted: October 09, 2015
Hugh Scully died watching television at his home in Cornwall
Hugh Scully, the former host of Antiques Roadshow, has died at his home near Truro. He was 72.
Mr Scully was a presenter on BBC's Nationwide and in 1981 he presented Antiques Roadshow along with Arthur Negus.
He resigned as a presenter in 2000 to join an internet auction company.
At the time of his departure, he said: "I have particularly enjoyed my long association with the Antiques Roadshow which has always been a delight and one of the best jobs in broadcasting.''
His son Oliver said his father died on Thursday afternoon while watching television at his Cornwall home.
Sue Lawley, who worked with Scully on Nationwide and before that at the BBC in Plymouth, described him as "a great talent" and a "fun-loving man".
She said: "He was a very good presenter - he did the most marvellous pieces for camera and he could write, which was terrific.
"His greatest coup, in his view, was when he persuaded Mrs Thatcher to give him the series of programmes they went on to do together on the Downing Street years. In the end he and Mrs Thatcher became firm friends.''
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