biography
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Thomson (of Fleet), Roy (Herbert) Thomson, Baron
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1976)
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| biography:
| Newspaper and television magnate, born in Toronto, Ontario, SE Canada. He held a variety of jobs, and became prosperous after setting up his own radio transmitter at North Bay (1931), founding what later became the NBC network. He started other radio stations, and bought many Canadian and US newspapers. He settled in Edinburgh on acquiring his first British paper, The Scotsman (1952), bought the Kemsley newspapers in 1959 (including The Sunday Times, to which he added the first colour supplement in 1962), and in 1966 took over The Times. Other business interests included Scottish Television and North Sea oil. He was created a peer in 1964. |
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