Under the Influence? Adam McCay: Journalist, Poet, Letter Writer and Influential Friend

Brian Vickery, September 11, 1918–October 17, 2009

“…In his final years Brian had been researching his family history, and was able to trace his father, Adam McCay, a professional writer, a leading journalist in Sydney, and a minor poet. 1 Leaving Australia, Brian lived with his family first in Egypt, and then in England, where he went to school in Canterbury. Afterward he went up to Oxford to Brasenose College, where, in common with a number of other information scientists of his vintage, he read for a degree in chemistry.…”