Hugh Cudlipp served as chairman of the Mirror Group group of newspapers from 1963 to 1967, and the chairman of the International Publishing Corporation from 1968 to 1973.
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Hugh Cudlipp was born in Cardiff, the youngest of three sons of William Christopher Cudlipp, a traveling salesman, and Bessie Amelia, nee Kinsman.
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Hugh Cudlipp left the Howard Gardens High School for boys at the age of fourteen, working for a number of short-lived local newspapers before transferring at the age of sixteen to Manchester and a job on the Manchester Evening Chronicle.
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Hugh Cudlipp was editor of the Sunday Pictorial from 1937 to 1940 and 1946 to 1949.
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Hugh Cudlipp was head of the army newspaper unit for the Mediterranean from 1943 to 1946, and oversaw the launch of a British forces' paper, Union Jack, modelled on the US Stars and Stripes.
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Hugh Cudlipp thereafter returned to the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial until 1949; when owing to disagreements with his then boss, Harry Guy Bartholomew, he left to take the post of managing editor of the Sunday Express for a two-year stint.
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In 1952, Hugh Cudlipp was made Editorial Director of the Sunday Pictorial and the Daily Mirror, in the period in which the latter sustained its position as one of the best-selling of British newspapers.
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Hugh Cudlipp was Chairman of the Mirror Group of newspapers from 1963 to 1967, where he oversaw the 1964 launch, as a broadsheet, of The Sun.
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Hugh Cudlipp was knighted in 1973 and created Baron Hugh Cudlipp, of Aldingbourne in the County of West Sussex in 1974.
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Hugh Cudlipp died on 13 November 1938, aged 25, after complications from a Caesarean section in a Harley Street clinic.
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Hugh Cudlipp died on 17 May 1998, aged 84, at his home in Chichester, West Sussex.