Cudlipp, Hugh (1913–1998)

Welsh publishing and newspaper magnate, a dynamic pioneer of British tabloid journalism. He was chair of Odhams Press, Daily Mirror Newspapers, and the International Publishing Corporation.

Cudlipp was managing editor of the Sunday Express 1950–52, and editorial director of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial 1959–63. His books include Publish and Be Damned (1955), At Your Peril (1965), and his autobiography, Walking on the Water (1976). He was made a life peer in 1974.

Cudlipp was born in Cardiff and educated there at Howard Gardens School. He worked as a journalist on provincial newspapers in Cardiff and Manchester before becoming features editor of the Sunday Chronicle in London, a post he held from 1932 to 1935. He was then appointed features editor of the Daily Mirror (1935–37), and in 1937 editor of the Sunday Pictorial, continuing, with an interruption for military service, until 1949.