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Harmsworth Victorious

In: Plant Here The Standard

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  • Dennis Griffiths

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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

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  • Dennis Griffiths, 1996. "Harmsworth Victorious," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Plant Here The Standard, chapter 24, pages 360-376, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12461-9_24
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12461-9_24
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