Noel Botham (23 January 1940 – 23 November 2012) was a British tabloid journalist and prolific author.
[3] Also noted as a raconteur and publican, for many years he ran one of Soho's landmark pubs, The French House.
Botham was educated at Dulwich College and apprenticed on The Croydon Advertiser, then became the foreign editor for the Daily Sketch at the age of 21.
After his death, The Daily Telegraph referred to Botham as "one of the hard-drinking reporters who made British newspapers the liveliest in the world".
[1] Roy Greenslade in The Guardian called him "the epitome of a Fleet Street scandal-monger and happy to be regarded as such".