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	Bill Deedes - Biocrawler
		William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, DL, PC (Bill Deedes, born Kent, England, June 1, 1913), is a veteran British journalist and ex-politician.
		Deedes was also the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the war hack Boot in the novel Scoop.
		Deedes was made a life peer in 1986, becoming Baron Deedes of Aldington in the County of Kent, though has always been keener on being addressed by all as "Bill" rather than "Lord".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bill_Deedes (355 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Journalist Lord Deedes dies at 94
		The young Bill Deedes was the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's infamous war reporter William Boot in the novel Scoop.
		Deedes was still an active journalist in his 90s, making visits to war-torn places like Ethiopia and Sudan, and writing a column in the Daily Telegraph.
		Aidan Barclay, chairman of the Telegraph Media Group, said: "Bill Deedes was a giant among men, a towering figure in journalism, an icon in British politics and a humanitarian to his very core.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/6952387.stm (505 words)

	tower hamlets history, london history, oxford house, bethnal green, wyndham deedes
		Deedes had been born in 1893 in Kent, the son of East Kent gentry who for four centuries had owned and farmed the land between Hythe and Ashford.
		Bill Deedes, later a Tory MP and editor of the Daily Telegraph, was Wyndham’s nephew.
		Bill Deedes recalled how his uncle’s evenings were taken up with visits to the poor and the sick, a lecture at the bookshop in Bethnal Green Road or a British Legion meeting.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /deedes.htm (892 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Deedes fought in the Second World War as an officer in the 2nd Battalion of The Queen's Westminsters, one of the territorial units of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, gaining the Military Cross near Hengelo, Holland in April 1945.
		Deedes was made a life peer in 1986, becoming Baron Deedes, of Aldington in the County of Kent, though he always preferred to be addressed as "Bill" rather than "Lord Deedes".
		Deedes was close to Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bill_Deedes (838 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Obituary: Lord Deedes
		Returning to Fleet Street upon demobilisation, Bill Deedes was elected as Conservative MP for Ashford in 1950.
		Bill Deedes' compassionate Conservatism was evident even in the 1930s, when he created a fund to give Christmas presents to under-privileged children, and helped found the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence.
		Famous for his slurred speech, Bill Deedes was the regular golfing partner of the late Sir Denis Thatcher who, fictionally, wrote the Dear Bill letters serialised in Private Eye.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1154619.stm (858 words)

	Lord Deedes - Telegraph
		Lord Deedes, who has died aged 94, was a Cabinet minister from 1962 to 1964, and editor of the The Daily Telegraph from 1974 to 1986; by far his greatest achievement, however, was the personality he evolved, and the man - almost the institution - he became.
		For though Bill Deedes was always perfectly at home in the great world, he was never in the least seduced by it.
		Those who encountered Bill Deedes, whether they were high or low, would discover not a stern man of power, but an amusing, entertaining, relaxed and courteous man-of-the-world - albeit with more than a hint of the greenroom.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/17/db1704.xml (601 words)

	Books \| Boot comes clean
		According to Bill Deedes - who has "been on both sides of the fence" as cabinet minister and editor - relations between politicians and press should always be "abrasive".
		At one of the parties to celebrate his 90th birthday, Lord Deedes suggested that his years as a soldier were the only part of his life which he regarded as remotely successful.
		Deedes left the government to return to his original trade, where he remained until he became Macmillan's "minister of information".
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5261142-99942,00.html (768 words)

	eircom net Ireland-International / Irish news headlines from leading Irish newspapers
		As for Diana, Deedes felt she was she was both saint and sinner who, when her life was cut short in a Paris car crash, had finally found a humanitarian role to fulfil her.
		At the age of 93, Deedes may be physically frail but, with a fortifying glass of whisky in hand as he sits propped up in bed in his rambling English country house, the mind is still as sharp as a tack.
		Deedes is unstinting in praise of her 50 years of service and her unheralded success in keeping together the Commonwealth, which is made up of former colonies in a once mighty empire.
	home.eircom.net /content/reuters/uNews/8895815?view=Standard (610 words)

	Bill Deedes at AllExperts
		William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, DL, PC (born 1 June 1913) is a veteran British journalist and a former politician.
		Deedes was close to Margaret Thatcher and Denis Thatcher.
		Deedes was made a life peer in 1986, becoming Baron Deedes, of Aldington in the County of Kent, though has always preferred to be addressed as "Bill" rather than "Lord Deedes".
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/bill_deedes.htm (543 words)

	The Royalist - Ex-Minister Remembers Diana The Good
		Speaking to Reuters News Agency, Lord William ("Bill") Deedes recalls his friendship with Diana, one which was strengthened by their mutual interest in the landmines issue.
		Deedes, now 93, accompanied the Princess to Bosnia in August 1997 to see for himself the work she undertook in her determination to herald the eradication of landmines which had already killed or maimed millions, including children.
		Deedes, who was nobody's fool, says Charles delivered a tremendous blow to the Monarchy by the stupid way he handled his first marriage, and will have to watch his step very carefully after the Queen dies.
	www.theroyalist.net /content/view/1211/1 (536 words)

	Stephen Glover On The Press - Independent Online Edition > Media (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bill Deedes, former editor of The Daily Telegraph and for nearly 20 years one of its columnists, is probably the most revered journalist alive.
		Bill has been a journalist since he joined the Morning Post (later merged with The Daily Telegraph) in 1931, and he was a Tory MP and, briefly, Cabinet minister.
		Bill Deedes is a reminder of an age when things were done differently, and I am grateful to him for creating such a delightful idyll at The Daily Telegraph, doomed though it undoubtedly was.
	news.independent.co.uk /media/article307504.ece (1169 words)

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		Humour and modesty are the hallmarks of Deedes -- former newspaper editor, one-time Cabinet minister, confidant of Margaret Thatcher during her tenure as prime minister, campaigner with Princess Diana against land mines, and peer of the realm since 1986.
		The letters -- mostly written during Deedes' stint as editor of the staunchly conservative Daily Telegraph -- portrayed the prime minister's husband as hen-pecked, gin-loving and forever laying plans to escape for a round of golf from a tedious trail of official engagements with "the Boss".
		Two years earlier, Deedes had encouraged her to take up the crusade, and, as he puts it, referring to her maiden outcry against the devices, "I lent a hand with the speech".
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/12/02/features/BILL.HTM (649 words)

	The Beacon Prize 2003: Judges - The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust
		Bill Deedes served in The King's Royal Rifle Corps throughout the Second World War, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1944.
		In April 2000 Bill Deedes received the Journalist of the Century award at The Oldie Magazine awards and at the press awards in March 2002, he was awarded the Press Gazette Gold Award.
		Bill Deedes was ennobled in 1986 and in 1999 received a knighthood for services to humanitarian causes, as well as journalism.
	www.beaconfellowship.org.uk /2003_judges.asp (1349 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dear Bill: A Memoir: Books: William Deedes
		Cutting his teeth at the "Morning Post", Bill Deedes was sent off to cover the Abyssinian war, thereby gaining him a reputation as a fearless war reporter and also inadvertently providing Evelyn Waugh with the inspiration for Scoop's hero, Henry Boot.
		Deedes has a life full of stories to tell, stories which we would all like to be a part of.
		Deedes takes us through his eighty plus years of writing from work as a reporter on the Morning Post, to his time in Ethiopia, all the way through to his relationship with Diana.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Dear-Bill-Memoir-William-Deedes/dp/0330354108 (779 words)

	No mishtake as Deedes is Journalist of the Century
		LORD DEEDES, or W F Deedes as he is known to readers of The Telegraph, was awarded what must be the ultimate media accolade yesterday when he was named Journalist of the Century by the Oldie magazine.
		Lord Deedes, whose journalistic career began as a 17-year-old reporter writing about the Indian rope trick, continues to write columns and foreign reports for this newspaper in his 87th year.
		Lord Deedes, whose friendship with Sir Denis Thatcher was famously parodied in Private Eye, made a reference to one of the magazine's favourite phrases as he collected the award.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/04/05/ndeed05.html (558 words)

	Books and Writing - 10/10/2004: Lord William Deedes - The Original Scoop
		Bill Deedes has had a remarkable career in both journalism and politics, having served as a Cabinet Minister and the editor of The Daily Telegraph.
		Lord Deedes: I read him and re-read him, mainly because, even at my age, I like to try to improve my English style, and he is a marvellous stylist, I mean, his punctuation he never uses three words where one will do.
		One or two of his relations were bribed by the Italians to surrender their army and they did, so it was a complicated war in that sense.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s1215814.htm (3456 words)

	intellagencia.com
		Deedes, 60, the former managing director of the Telegraph, originally stepped down in November 2003 but was lured out of retirement to steer the titles through the sale process following the financial scandals at Hollinger.
		But the Barclays have offered Deedes the chance to "advise the papers' management and represent the Telegraph at functions and events" on an ongoing basis, according to the Media Guardian.
		Jeremy Deedes retired as managing director of the Telegraph Group in November 2003, after a career that spanned 40 years in newspapers.
	www.intellagencia.com /news.asp?siteid=4&id=65046 (297 words)

	Tim Worstall Tabloid Edition: Bill Deedes.
		Bill Deedes if following the route his company took from Normandy to Germany, thebeginning of what looks like an excellent series of articles.
		I’ve seen it said that the crane operators insisted on extra payment to dip the cranes as the barge with Churchill’s coffin on went past in the 1960s.
		Jul 4, 2005 9:35:39 AM This anti-cooperation attitude pervaded most of unionised labour throughout the War, and it was that very same attitude, of "what's in it for us?" which sounded the death knell for most of the heavy industry in britain over the past thirty years.
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/07/bill_deedes.html (454 words)

	If you feel too old, take heart from words and Deedes: Sunday Independent, September 3rd 2006 - Ruth Dudley Edwards (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deedes is the Telegraph readers' favourite columnist, an example to everyone of how to maintain purpose and grace in old age.
		Deedes was a friend to Princess Diana, with whom he went to Bosnia in 1997 to meet landmine victims three weeks before she was killed.
		A peer who writes as W.F. Deedes and likes to be called Bill, he has been a Cabinet Minister (1962-4) and edited from 1974-86 the newspaper for which he continues to write as an ordinary journalist, giving advice to his successors only if asked, and then sparingly.
	www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk /Journalism06/IrInd06_30.htm (870 words)

	Mr Deedes takes a gamble, Bill Hagerty - British Journalism Review Vol. 16, No. 3, 2005
		Deedes completed his dual tasks, maintaining staff morale as best he could and overseeing the sale to the Barclays, who saw off a cluster of other suitors in winning the group’s hand.
		Deedes is far too loyal a Telegraph man to be drawn into any controversy over the supposed one-time precarious position of daily paper editor Martin Newland and the sacking of Sunday editor Dominic Lawson.
		Deedes is equally circumspect when recalling the much-publicised incident when, in front of a Telegraph team discussing shared printing company, West Ferry, Express group proprietor Richard Desmond launched a tirade of abuse against German publishing house Axel Springer, then bidding for the Telegraph publications.
	www.bjr.org.uk /data/2005/no3_hagerty.htm (3985 words)

	Quadrant Magazine
		Bill Deedes does not dwell on the tempestuous finale to Powell’s career, tangled in the hatreds of the politics of Northern Ireland.
		For Deedes, Enoch’s “real trouble” was the speech he made in Birmingham in 1968, about the possible consequences for England of uncontrolled and apparently limitless settlement there of immigrants from Commonwealth countries—mostly, in fact, from Pakistan, India and the West Indies.
		Deedes’ “real trouble” was not the prescience of his old friend and colleague, nor even his willingness to draw public attention to his forebodings; it was Enoch’s style.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=1787 (1411 words)

	Bill Deedes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, PC (born June 1, 1913), is a British journalist and politician.
		He was a elected Conservative Party member of Parliament for Ashford, Kent, in 1950 and entered Harold Macmillan's cabinet in 1962 as minister without portfolio.
		His son Jeremy Deedes is managing director of The Telegraph group of companies.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Lord_Deedes (185 words)

	Gujarat must remain on the front page
		For, standing tall amidst the dark ruins left by the earthquake in Gujarat, was the luminous spirit of the Indian relief workers, drawn both from the official corpus and the innumerable volunteer groups that had rushed there as if to fulfil a promise of some selfless vow.
		Lord Deedes waded through the rubble in the remote village of Bakutara, 40 km from Santalpur taluka on the border of Kutch and Patan districts.
		Lord Deedes who suffered a stroke during his gruelling Gujarat tour, insisted on completing his dispatch from the hospital in Ahmedabad in between an ECG examination and a CT brain scan.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20010216/ian16026.html (657 words)

	Dear Bill
		W F Deedes reads the first part of his autobiography, abridged by Katrin Williams in five parts.
		The Morning Post has been taken over by the Daily Telegraph, and Bill Deedes is a reporter covering the prelude to war.
		This enables Deedes to visit the Marcoses in the Philippines and to accompany the late Diana, Princess of Wales, to Bosnia.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/dear_bill.html (408 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 28 Mar 2001 (pt 12)
		It was one of the 16 or 17 Bills that have been introduced since 1969 on the subject.
		Such was the force of our argument that the Bill passed without dissent, and the House moved on to an emergency debate on the railways--nothing changes much in the House.
		The Bill is being debated on Second Reading, and although I am not in charge of Opposition affairs I think that it is a bit much to say to us that it should simply be ticked through.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200001/cmhansrd/vo010328/debtext/10328-12.htm (1635 words)

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