The veteran ITV News at Ten presenter Sandy Gall has left behind a huge sum of money to his children in his will.
Gall, whose career spanned over 50 years, died at his home in Kent aged 97 in July this year.
Now, the contents of his will have been revealed where he left a small fortune to his four children – which includes his daughter Carlotta who followed in his footsteps to become a legendary foreign correspondent – whom she shared with his wife Eleanor.
The will leaves his entire estate to his son and three daughters which at the time of his death was worth £632,749.
Following deductions it’s now worth a respectable £331,303.
In a tribute, at the time of his death, his family said: ‘His was a great life, generously and courageously lived.’
His daughter Carlotta said that she was ‘very sad but proud’.
Working at the Aberdeen Press and Journal and Reuters before joining ITN, he covered everything from the Suez Crisis in 1956 to the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
Sandy Gall, whose career spanned over 50 years, died at his home in Kent aged 97 in July this year
Gall in Afghanistan in 1996. Gall presented News at Ten from 1970 to 1991
He worked at the foreign news agency as a correspondent for a decade, with one of his first assignments to cover the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963.
While working on the ground for ITN was one of the few journalists to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, having watched the first American marines go ashore at Da Nang, filing pictures from inside a helicopter gunship.
Then the country’s most-watched programme, Gall presented News at Ten from 1970 to 1991.
In this time he was regularly paired with enigmatic Reginald Bosanquet.
He continued to work as a special reporter before finally retiring in 1992.
Gall then continued to work, setting up Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal to treat people from the war-ravaged nation. The charity was run by his wife and two of his daughters.
The work was inspired by his time reporting in the Middle East, where he witnessed the horrors of battles including the Gulf War in 1991.
Gall was born in 1927 in Penang, Malaya – which is now known as Malaysia.
His Scottish father managed a rubber plantation, and the family returned home to Britain when he was four.
In recognition of his journalism, Gall received a CBE in 1987 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2011 (pictured)
After leaving university in 1953, he joined Reuters, where he reported from across the world – and even spent time in a Ugandan prison death cell during the civil war.
He moved to ITN in 1963, where he characteristically demanded more funds to help with his coverage. During his coverage in Asia, the broadcaster cabled him to say ‘You are supposed to be reporting Vietnam, not buying it.’
Gall’s wife Eleanor died in 2018.
In recognition of his journalism, Gall received a CBE in 1987 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2011.
