biography
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Rees-Mogg (of Hinton Blewitt), William Rees-Mogg, Baron
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He studied at Charterhouse and Oxford, and joined The Financial Times in 1952, becoming chief leader writer and assistant editor. In 1960 he moved to The Sunday Times as city editor, and became deputy editor in 1964. He then became editor of The Times (1967–81), by which time he had become an accepted establishment figure, on the boards of several companies. In 1988 he was appointed to head the new, controversial, Broadcasting Standards Council. Knighted in 1981, he was created a life peer in 1988. |
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