[6][8] He graduated with a second-class degree and did his two years of national service with the first battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Germany.

[3] He asked Independent Television News (ITN) for a job, telling them he wanted fame to which they replied that he could begin working for them as a tea-boy.

[10] Bosanquet was made one of the lead anchors of the half-hour ITV News at Ten nightly bulletin when it launched on 3 July 1967.

I mean, you wouldn't have chosen a man who had epilepsy, was an alcoholic, had had a stroke and wore a toupée to read the news, but the combination was absolute magic.

"[14] Although held in considerable affection by the public (he was commonly addressed by family, friends and the media as "Reggie"), Bosanquet was not without his critics as a newsreader.

At times he could appear puzzled by unfamiliar foreign names[1] while his trademark slurred delivery fed contemporary suspicions that he was a heavy drinker.

[1] In early 1980, he presented The Bosanquet View series of three special film reports entitled Divorce, The World of Gossip Columns and Tennis that were broadcast on the BBC1 programme Nationwide.

[5][32] Although Bosanquet told an interviewer that he would not remarry,[3] his final marriage was to Joan Adams, whom he married at Chelsea Register Office on 23 August 1983.

[36] Two years later, he was given a three-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £50 in costs on charges of being drunk and disorderly in James Street, Covent Garden.

[41] Bosanquet was given a memorial service attended by colleagues and family members at All Souls Church, Langham Place in Westminster on the afternoon of 4 July.

[45] A parody song was sung by actress Pamela Stephenson in series 1 episode 4 of the BBC comedy programme Not the Nine O'Clock News referencing him leaving his newsreading role.