Percy William David Izzard OBE (September 1877 – 17 June 1968) was the first regular agricultural and horticultural correspondent in the popular press and wrote for the Daily Mail for a period of 50 years.
Percy Izzard studied at King's College London but dropped out and went looking for a job to support his family after his father passed away.
[3][4][5] Glorifying UK's great countrysides in the Daily Mail during World War I turned out to be an effective morale booster for the troops.
[6] In April 1953, he was sent in the Himalaya to report on the successful British Mount Everest expedition for the Daily Mail.
[7] He was claimed by his son, the writer Ralph Izzard, to have been the inspiration for William Boot in the Evelyn Waugh novel "Scoop".