John Deane Potter, born in Anglesey in Wales in October 1912, brought up in Liverpool, became a Fleet Street journalist, columnist and popular writer in the 1950s and 1960s.
John Deane Potter was one of Fleet Street's most prodigious reporters in the post-war years, covering many of the major events including the trial of the Moors murders Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in 1966.
He was one of the first Western journalists to report from Hiroshima after the Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945, which is featured in his 1951 memoir, No Time for Breakfast.
His biography on Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral and mastermind of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, was one of the earliest contemporary publications.
His second wife was Eve Chapman, the fashion editor of the Daily Mirror and later agony aunt of the News of the World.