US Edition Last of the press barons who was chairman of The Daily Telegraph for 33 years and founded The Sunday Telegraph
THE LORD HARTWELL, who has died aged 89, was chairman and editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph for 33 years, from the death of his father the 1st Viscount Camrose in 1954 until 1987, two years after control passed to Conrad Black.
In a sense he was one of the last of the old press barons, men who invested all their energies and their wealth in the newspapers they owned. Yet his character could scarcely have been further removed from that of the loud-mouthed, megalomaniac newspaper tycoon of popular legend. Modest, gentlemanly and self-effacing - he detested personal publicity - Hartwell saw his inheritance first and foremost as duty to be discharged...
