John Beavan, Baron Ardwick

John Cowburn Morgan Beavan, Baron Ardwick (19 April 1910 – 18 August 1994) was a British journalist.

Beavan was reporter of the Manchester Evening News becoming its editor in 1943. Between 1946 and 1955, he was London editor of The Guardian.^[1] For two years, 1960 to 1962, he was editor of the Daily Herald, then becoming political advisor to the Mirror Group, a post he retained until 1976.^[2]

On 16 January 1970, he was created a life peer as Baron Ardwick, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.^[3]

Arms

Coat of arms of John Beavan, Baron Ardwick
Coronet A Coronet of a Baron Crest A Cock criant standing upon a Hand Mirror proper the Frame and Handle Or Escutcheon Or a Dragon passant between two Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper in chief and in base on a Pile reversed Gules an Owl Argen Supporters On either side a Representation of an Angel holding in the superior hand a Shepherd's Crook proper Motto IN OMNIA PARATUS (Prepared in all things)

References

↑ Terence Lancaster Obituary: Lord Ardwick, The Independent, 19 August 1994
↑ Dennis Griffiths (ed) The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992, London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p,97
↑ "No. 45021". The London Gazette. 16 January 1970. p. 658.

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Media offices
Preceded by Douglas Machray	Editor of the Daily Herald 1960–1962	Succeeded by Sydney Jacobson

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[1] Terence Lancaster Obituary: Lord Ardwick, The Independent, 19 August 1994

[2] Dennis Griffiths (ed) The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992, London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p,97

[3] "No. 45021". The London Gazette. 16 January 1970. p. 658.