The London Times

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The London Times

NEWSPAPER

Founded 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, renamed the London Times in 1788.

Official Website:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Peter Ackroyd Author 5-Oct-1949 The Great Fire of London

Barbara Amiel Journalist 4-Dec-1940 Director of The Spectator

Julian Barnes Novelist 19-Jan-1946 Flaubert's Parrot

Vernon Bartlett Journalist 30-Apr-1894 18-Jan-1983 Journey's End

Poultney Bigelow Author 10-Sep-1855 28-May-1954 The German Struggle for Liberty

George Buchanan Novelist 9-Jan-1904 1989 Entanglement

Alexander Chancellor Editor 4-Jan-1940 Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84

Winston S. Churchill Politician 10-Oct-1940 2-Mar-2010 British MP, Manchester, 1970-97

Claud Cockburn Journalist 12-Apr-1904 15-Dec-1981 Radical British journalist

Cyril Connolly Critic 10-Sep-1903 26-Nov-1974 Enemies of Promise

Robert Fisk Journalist 12-Jul-1946 Foreign correspondent for The Independent

Basil Liddell Hart Military 31-Oct-1895 29-Jan-1970 Military strategist

Boris Johnson Journalist 19-Jun-1964 Mayor of London

Irving R. Levine Journalist 26-Aug-1922 27-Mar-2009 NBC Correspondent, 1950-95

Stanley Morison Typographer 6-May-1889 11-Oct-1967 Times New Roman

Jan Morris Journalist 2-Oct-1926 Transsexual travel writer

Kim Philby Spy 1-Jan-1912 11-May-1988 One of the Cambridge Five in MI6

Anthony Powell Novelist 21-Dec-1905 28-Mar-2000 A Dance to the Music of Time

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