Harmsworth Victorious

Dennis Griffiths

Chapter 24 in Plant Here The Standard, 1996, pp 360-376 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Described as ‘the most unlikely newspaper publisher of the century’,1 Victor Matthews was aged 58 when he became the new chairman of Beaverbrook Newspapers. Born in London, he had begun work as an office boy and during the Second World War had served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. On demobilisation, he became a trainee with Trollope and Colls, the City of London builders, and rose to become contracts manager. During the next thirty years, he was to play a prominent part in the building and contract world, and with Nigel Broackes (later Sir Nigel) developed Trafalgar House into an international force, with interests in civil engineering, the Ritz Hotel and the Cunard shipping line, including the Queen Elizabeth II.2

Keywords: Evening Standard; Assistant Editor; Evening News; Daily Mail; Sole Owner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12461-9_24

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