| Tom Boswell | |
| Birth Date: | 30 August 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Simla |
| Death Place: | Reading, England |
| Occupation: | journalist |
Tom Boswell (30 August 1943, in Simla – 19 November 1990, in Reading)[1] was a journalist who worked in both BBC Radio and Television.
In radio he contributed to the highly successful Radio Four series Going Places and the Saturday morning programme Breakaway.
As a television presenter he contributed items for Top Gear. He presented two episodes in 1981 and 1982, and then appeared in twenty episodes between 1988 and his death in 1990.[2] [3] His specialties on Top Gear included safety and economy topics such as the new Merritt engine and protection against car theft. Boswell also reviewed motorcycles during the show.