Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s. Chairman of the Arts Council in the 1980s. Vice-Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. In 1988 he became Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewettin in the County of Avon.
1962 married Gillian Shakespeare Morris, daughter of Thomas Morris, and went on to have 5 children, including the politicians: Jacob Rees-Mogg and Annunciata Rees-Mogg.
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William Rees-Mogg
Unveiled by William Rees-Mogg in June 2000. Frances's date of birth, 1779 (ac...
Writer and journalist. John Betjeman's daughter.
Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular. Â Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...
Born The Savoy Hotel, as Philip Arnold Heseltine. Peter Warlock was his pseudonym. Journalist, music critic and composer. His music was heavily influenced by Elizabethan and Celtic culture. Influen...
Journalist, 24. From Geddes Trust (previously geddesprize.co.uk): The awards are named after Philip Geddes, a member of St Edmund Hall {Oxford University} and a journalist of considerable promise. ...
Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955. Became a community organiser afte...
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