William Rees-Mogg
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The Right Honourable The Lord Rees-Mogg |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 July 1928 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK |
| Died | 29 December 2012 (aged 84) London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Crossbencher Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Gillian Morris |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 1928 – 29 December 2012) was an English journalist and public servant. He served as editor of The Times (1967–81), chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, and vice-chairman of the BBC.
William Rees-Mogg was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England in 1928 to an English Protestant father, Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg, and an Irish-American Roman Catholic mother, Beatrice (née Warren).
He was educated at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol and Charterhouse School in Godalming. He was head boy at Charterhouse and won a Brackenbury Scholarship in 1948 to read history at Balliol College, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1951.
Rees-Mogg began his career in journalism in London at The Financial Times in 1952 becoming chief leader writer in 1955 and, in addition, assistant editor in 1957. During this period, he was Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of Chester-le-Street in a by-election on 27 September 1956, losing to the Labour candidate Norman Pentland by 21,287 votes, as he did in the subsequent general election by a similar margin.
He moved to The Sunday Times in 1960, later becoming its Deputy Editor from 1964 where he wrote "A Captain’s Innings", which many believe convinced Alec Douglas-Home to resign as Tory leader, making way for Edward Heath, in July 1965.
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