Robert Skelton

For the American Olympian, see Bob Skelton (swimmer).

Robert Lumley Skelton (4 October 1896 – 11 August 1973) was a British newspaper editor.

Skelton grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and attended Rutherford College. During World War I, he served in the Durham Light Infantry from 1914, but was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot in 1918. After the war, he took up journalism, and became editor of the Natal Witness in 1928. Returning to the UK in 1933, he was appointed Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph, serving until 1948, when he became editor of the News of the World. In later years, he served as chairman and managing director of Curzon-Grantham Advertising.^[1]

References

↑ "SKELTON, Robert Lumley", Who Was Who

Editors of the Daily Herald, The Sun and the News of the World

Daily Herald	1912: William H. Seed 1912: Roland Kenney 1913: Charles Lapworth 1913: George Lansbury 1922: W. P. Ryan 1922: Hamilton Fyfe 1926: William Mellor 1931: W. H. Stevenson 1936: Francis Williams 1940: Percy Cudlipp 1953: Sydney Elliott 1957: Douglas Machray 1960: John Beaven 1962: Sydney Jacobson

The Sun	1964: Sydney Jacobson 1965: Dick Dinsdale 1969: Larry Lamb 1972: Bernard Shrimsley 1975: Larry Lamb 1981: Kelvin MacKenzie 1994: Stuart Higgins 1998: David Yelland 2003: Rebekah Wade 2009: Dominic Mohan 2013: David Dinsmore 2015: Tony Gallagher

News of the World	1843: Henry Drake Breun 1891: Emsley Carr 1941: David Percy Davies 1946: Robert Skelton 1947: Arthur Waters 1953: Reg Cudlipp 1960: Stafford Somerfield 1970: Cyril Lear 1974: Peter Stephens 1975: Bernard Shrimsley 1980: Kenneth Donlan 1981: Barry Askew 1981: Derek Jameson 1984: Nicholas Lloyd 1985: David Montgomery 1987: Wendy Henry 1988: Patsy Chapman 1993: Stuart Higgins 1994: Piers Morgan 1995: Phil Hall 2000: Rebekah Wade 2003: Andy Coulson 2007: Colin Myler

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