biography
| name: |
Ingham, Sir Bernard
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pronunciation:
[ingam]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Hebden Bridge Grammar School, then embarked on a career as a journalist, joining the Hebden Bridge Times (1948–52), The Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post (1952–62), and The Guardian (1962–7). He was a government press adviser (1976) and under-secretary in the Department of Energy (1978–9), becoming nationally known after his appointment as chief press secretary to prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–90). He was knighted in 1990. |
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