John Beavan, Baron Ardwick

Noble person

1910 – 1994

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Who was John Beavan, Baron Ardwick?

John Cowburn Morgan Beavan, Baron Ardwick was a British journalist.

Beavan was reporter of the Manchester Evening News becoming its editor in 1943. Between 1946 and 1955, he was London editor of The Guardian. For two years, 1960 to 1962, he was editor of the Daily Herald, then becoming political advisor to the Mirror Group, a post he retained until 1976.

On 16 January 1970, he was created a life peer as Baron Ardwick, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Born
Apr 19, 1910
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Died
Aug 18, 1994

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on July 23, 2013

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