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.