Edward Williams, Baron Francis-Williams

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Edward Francis Williams, Baron Francis Williams CBE (* 10. March 1903 in St. Martin's , Shropshire , † 5. June 1970 in Abinger , Surrey ) was a British journalist , who from 1936 to 1940 chief editor of the daily newspaper The Daily Herald was and 1962 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

After attending Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Middleton (Suffolk) , Williams worked as a journalist for various daily newspapers such as Bootle Times , Liverpool Daily Courier and The Daily Herald . After a career as a financial reporter with The Sunday Express , which began in 1926 , he was local editor at The Daily Herald between 1929 and 1936 and was finally succeeded by William H. Stevenson as editor-in-chief of The Daily Herald in 1936 . He kept this position until he was replaced in 1940 by Percy Cudlipp , who was previously editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard between 1933 and 1938 .

After finishing his work for the Daily Herald, Williams was from 1941 to 1945 inspector of the Ministry of Information for press censorship and was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the Medal of Freedom in 1945 for his services . In his book War By Revolution , published in 1941, he examined the democratic conditions in Europe, the reasons for the collapse of France and also tried to look at the events at the beginning of the Second World War from the perspective of Adolf Hitler .

After the war, he worked from 1945 to 1947 as an adviser to Prime Minister Clement Attlee for public relations and then as a correspondent for the weekly newspaper The Observer in the United States . He also worked as an author and journalist for The News Chronicle and New Statesman . He was later between 1951 and 1952 Board of Directors ( Governor ) of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and 1961 Regent's Professor at the California University of Pennsylvania .

By a letters patent from April 13, 1962, Williams was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Francis-Williams , of Abinger in the County of Surrey, to the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death. In addition, Baron Francis-Williams was a member of the Monopolies Commission on Newspaper Mergers between 1966 and 1970 and also held the Kemper Knapp Professorship at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1967 .

Publications

  • War By Revolution , 1941
  • Ten Angels Swearing ... Or, Tomorrow's Politics , 1941
  • The Democratic Order , London 1941
  • No Man is an Iceland. A Novel , London 1945
  • The Labor Party in Perspective-and Twelve Years Later , co-author Clement Attlee, London 1949
  • Fifty Years' March. The Rise of the Labor Party , Odhams Press, 1949
  • Ernest Bevin: Portrait of a Great Englishman , 1952
  • Transmitting World News. A Study of Telecommunications and the Press , 1953
  • Dangerous Estate. The Anatomy of Newspapers , 1957
  • Dangerous Estate, Etc , Arrow Books, 1959
  • Prime Minister Remembers: the War and Post-War Memoirs of Earl Attlee. Based on His Private Papers and on a Series of Recorded Conversations , 1961
  • The American Invasion , 1962
  • Journalism as a Career , 1962
  • A Pattern of Rulers , London 1965
  • The right to know: the rise of the world press , 1969
  • Nothing so strange , 1970

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ War By Revolution , 1941 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Edward, Baron Francis-Williams
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Edward Francis, Baron Francis-Williams (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Martin’s , Shropshire
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1970
Place of death Abinger , Surrey