Hugh Cudlipp

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Hugh Kinsman Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp OBE (born at 118 Lisvane Street, Cardiff, on 28 August 1913 - May 17, 1998), was a Welsh journalist.

Hugh Cudlipp was editor of the Sunday Pictorial from 1937 to 1940, and was Chairman of the Mirror Group of newspapers from 1963 to 1967. From 1968 to 1973, he was Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation. His brother, Percy Cudlipp (born at 180 Arabella Street, Cardiff, on 10 November 1905 died at his home, 11 Falmouth House, Clarendon Place, London, on 5 November 1962), was also a prominent journalist.

Cudlipp was knighted in 1973 and created Baron Cudlipp, of Aldingbourne in the County of West Sussex in 1974.