Michael Hugh Scully (5 March 1943 – 8 October 2015)[1][2] was an English journalist, radio and television presenter.
[3][4] Born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire,[1] Scully spent much of his childhood in Malta and Egypt, where his father was stationed with the Royal Air Force.
He was educated at Prior Park College, a boarding school in Bath, Somerset, at the age of thirteen and after leaving, worked for a period with the piano company Steinway & Sons.
[6] Scully was chosen in 1981 to present Antiques Roadshow, along with Arthur Negus.
He resigned as presenter in 2000, to join Internet auction company QXL.com and help launch its on-line antiques business,[7] and was replaced by Michael Aspel.