Mirror'''s ownership by Robert Maxwell, and remained at the Mail until shortly before his death. He fought long crusades to highlight what he perceived to be a decline in the standards of modern English; for example, he founded the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe, whose members attempt to stem the tide of such solecisms as "potatoe's" and "pound's of apple's and orange's" in greengrocers' shops. In February 2004, he was voted Britain's most admired contemporary columnist by the British Journalism Review''. Death On 4 September 2009, a statement released by his family announced that Waterhouse had died quietly in his sleep at his home in London. He was 80 years old. Works References External links Keith Waterhouse in conversation (BBC TV 1985) Times of London obituary Keith Waterhouse - Daily Telegraph obituary Keith Waterhouse - Guardian obituary The Keith Waterhouse archive is housed at Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University. 1929 births 2009 deaths Daily Mail journalists Daily Mirror people Punch (magazine) people British male journalists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English columnists English essayists English satirists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Writers from Leeds 20th-century Royal Air Force personnel British male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists British male essayists English male novelists 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 20th-century essayists 21st-century essayists 20th-century English male writers 21st-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers People from Hunslet