Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist.
He was the grandson of the linguist John Sampson, of whom he wrote a biography, The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997).
He was the author of a series of books, starting with Anatomy of Britain (1962), in which he explored the workings of the British state and other major social institutions, in particular the large corporation.
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[3] Sampson's personal archive, catalogued by the Bodleian Library, was made public for the first time in 2012.