Hugh Cudlipp

Hugh Cudlipp

Hubert "Hugh" Kinsman Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp OBE (born at 118 Lisvane Street, Cardiff, on 28 August, 1913 - May 17, 1998), was a Welsh journalist.

Hugh Cudlipp was editor of the "Sunday Pictorial" from 1937 to 1940, and was Chairman of the Mirror Group of newspapers from 1963 to 1967. From 1968 to 1973, he was Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation. His brother, Percy Cudlipp, was also a prominent journalist.

Cudlipp was knighted in 1973 and created Baron Cudlipp, of Aldingbourne in the County of West Sussex in 1974.


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