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CodeDS/UK/12461
NameChancellor; Sir; Christopher Robert John (1904-1989); British journalist, administrator
Dates1904-1989
GenderMale
Biography to: navigation, search Sir Christopher (Robert John) Chancellor (29 March 1904–9 September 1989), a British journalist and administrator, was general manager of the news agency Reuters from 1944 to 1959. The Daily Telegraph credited him for keeping the company running under extremely difficult wartime circumstances, noting that "It was largely thanks to Chancellor that Reuters had survived the war intact, despite the loss for several years of the greatest part of its world market." By 1951, at the firm's 100th anniversary, Chancellor was credited with tripling the agency's correspondents and revenues.

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