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Bage, Robert (1728?–1801), businessman and novelist  

Gary Kelly

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Bage, Robert (1728?–1801), businessman and novelist, was born at Darley, near Derby, on 29 February 1728, according to his lifelong friend William Hutton (W. Hutton, 478), although Bage wrote to Hutton on 11 March 1800 declaring, 'This day I am 70...

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Barrow, Anthony Frederick James (Tony) (1936–2016), journalist and public relations executive  

Chloe Govan

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09 January 2020

Barrow, Anthony Frederick James (Tony) (1936–2016), journalist and public relations executive, was born on 11 May 1936 at Park House Nursing Home, Haigh Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, the son of James Perry Barrow (1895–1980), a solicitor’s clerk who had served in the ...

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Bedser, Eric Arthur (1918–2006)  

Rob Steen

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09 January 2014

See Bedser, Sir Alec Victor

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Boyars, Arthur (1925–2017)  

John Calder

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14 January 2021

See under Boyars [née Asmus], Marion Ursula

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Clark, Sir Thomas Fife (1907–1985), journalist and public relations expert  

J. M. Lee

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Clark, Sir Thomas Fife (1907–1985), journalist and public relations expert, was born at 37 Grange Road, Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, on 29 May 1907, the son of Thomas Fife Clark, journalist, and his wife, Jane Nevison. On leaving Middlesbrough high school at the age of seventeen he became a journalist with the chain of provincial newspapers owned by the ...

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Clarke, William Malpas (1922–2011), financial journalist and business executive  

Geoffrey Owen

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08 January 2015

Clarke, William Malpas (1922–2011), financial journalist and business executive, was born on 5 June 1922 at 24 Beauchamp Street, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, the son of Ernest Clarke, machine fitter, and his wife, Florence, née Wright. He was educated at Audenshaw grammar school...

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Crowther, Geoffrey, Baron Crowther (1907–1972)  

Maker: Howard Coster

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther (1907–1972) by Howard Coster, 1937 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Crowther, Geoffrey, Baron Crowther (1907–1972), journalist and businessman  

Roland Bird

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Crowther, Geoffrey, Baron Crowther (1907–1972), journalist and businessman, was born on 13 May 1907 at Headingley, Leeds, the eldest son of Charles Crowther (1876–1964), lecturer then professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of Leeds, and his wife, Hilda Louise Reed (d...

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Cudlipp, Hubert Kinsman [Hugh], Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998), journalist and publishing executive  

Anthony Howard

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Cudlipp, Hubert Kinsman [Hugh], Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998), journalist and publishing executive, was born at 118 Lisvane Street, Cardiff, on 28 August 1913, the youngest son in the family of three sons and one daughter of William Christopher Cudlipp, commercial traveller for a provision merchant, and his wife, ...

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Cudlipp, Hubert Kinsman [Hugh], Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998)  

Maker: Henri Cartier-Bresson

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Hubert Kinsman Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998) by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1961 © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

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Defoe, Daniel (1660?–1731)  

Maker: Michael Vandergucht

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Daniel Defoe (1660?–1731) by Michael Vandergucht, pubd 1706 (after Jeremiah Taverner, 1706) © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Defoe, Daniel (1660?–1731), writer and businessman  

Paula R. Backscheider

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Defoe, Daniel (1660?–1731), writer and businessman, was the youngest of the three children of James Foe (d. 1706), a prosperous tallow chandler in the parish of Cripplegate and a freeman of the City of London, and Alice Foe, who died some time between 1668 and 1671. His sisters, ...

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Dillwyn, (Elizabeth) Amy (1845–1935), novelist and businesswoman  

David Painting

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Dillwyn, (Elizabeth) Amy (1845–1935), novelist and businesswoman, was born at Parc Wern, Sketty, Swansea, on 16 May 1845, the second daughter and third child in the family of three daughters and one son of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn (1814–1892), an industrialist and Liberal MP for ...

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Fletcher, Winston (1937–2012), advertising executive and writer  

Anne Pimlott Baker

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07 January 2016

Fletcher, Winston (1937–2012), advertising executive and writer, was born Winston Fleisher on 15 July 1937 at the London Hospital in Stepney, Whitechapel, London, the youngest of five children of Abraham Uscher Fleisher, later Albert Fletcher (d. 1963), and his wife, Bessie, née...

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Freeman, John Frederick (1880–1929), poet and businessman  

Sophia Creswell

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Freeman, John Frederick (1880–1929), poet and businessman, was born on 29 January 1880 at 5 Pownall Road, Haggerston, London, the eldest son of John Jacob Freeman, a commercial traveller, and his wife, Catherine Esther, née Botham, granddaughter of a captain in a regiment of guards. His father, whose family came from ...

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Greene, Graham Carleton (1936–2016), publisher, businessman, and public servant  

Jeremy Treglown

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09 January 2020

Greene, Graham Carleton (1936–2016), publisher, businessman, and public servant, was born in Berlin on 10 June 1936, the son of Hugh Carleton Greene (1910–1987), journalist and later director-general of the BBC, and his first wife, Helga Mary, née Guinness (1916–1985...

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Hadfield, William (1806–1887), writer and businessman  

Colin M. Lewis

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Hadfield, William (1806–1887), writer and businessman, was born in Liverpool and married, at Harden, Yorkshire, on 15 August 1833, Martha Wikeley (1804/5–1882). During his youth he travelled extensively in Brazil, the River Plate republics, and the islands of the south Atlantic, including the ...

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Hamlyn, Paul Bertrand Wolfgang, Baron Hamlyn (1926–2001)  

Maker: Lewis Morley

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05 March 2009
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06 January 2005
Paul Bertrand Wolfgang Hamlyn, Baron Hamlyn (1926–2001) by Lewis Morley, 1960s © Lewis Morley, courtesy of The Akehurst Bureau; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

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Hamlyn [formerly Hamburger], Paul Bertrand Wolfgang, Baron Hamlyn (1926–2001), publisher, businessman, and philanthropist  

Tim Rix

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05 March 2009
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06 January 2005

Hamlyn [formerly Hamburger], Paul Bertrand Wolfgang, Baron Hamlyn (1926–2001), publisher, businessman, and philanthropist, was born Paul Bertrand Wolfgang Hamburger on 12 February 1926 in Berlin, the second son and youngest of the four children of Professor Richard Hamburger (1884–1940), a distinguished Jewish paediatrician, and his wife, ...

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Head, Alice Maud (1886–1981), journalist and businesswoman  

Martin Pugh

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Head, Alice Maud (1886–1981), journalist and businesswoman, was born on 3 May 1886 at 138 High Street, Notting Hill, London, the younger daughter of Frank Dearden Head, a builder, and his wife, Ada Cove, a schoolteacher. After attending school in Acton she was sent to the ...