Alexander A. Josey was born c.1910 in Poole, Dorset, where he attended South Road School. He resurrected the Poole Wheelers Club and was its Vice-President. He worked as a journalist on the Poole Herald and the Bournemouth Times before moving to become assistant editor of Cycling under H. H. England, who was editor. He wrote and delivered many wartime broadcasts for the BBC, often of his own personal experiences. He was a keen collector of books and papers of historical interest on cycling. He played bicycle polo and was national secretary of the Road Time Trials Council. He also wrote a popular thriller and the 12th edition of the Cycling Manual and Year Book . From about 1949 he lived in the Far East, Malaysia and Singapore, where he worked as a journalist until at least 1961, when his card describes him as South East Asia correspondent for Reynolds News and Worldwide Press Service.
He was married to Kathleen and lived in Wimbledon.
From the guide to the Papers of Alexander A. Josey., 1869-1974, (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library)
