Marmaduke Hussey, 83; former BBC board chief and newspaper editor
Lord Marmaduke Hussey, 83, who was the BBC’s chairman of the board of directors from 1986 to 1996, died Wednesday, the company announced in London. The cause of death was not specified.
Born in 1923 in Woking, Surrey, England, Hussey served with the Grenadier Guards in World War II and lost a leg in combat at Anzio, Italy. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and joined Associated Newspapers, eventually rising to editor of the Daily Mail.
He later became chief executive of Times Newspapers from 1971 to 1982, and waged a bitter dispute with print unions about modernizing technology that kept the company’s flagship Times and Sunday Times papers off the streets for nearly a year.
He was made a life peer in 1996, becoming Lord Hussey of North Bradley.
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