Silvester Bolam
Silvester Bolam (23 October 1905 – 27 April 1953) was a
newspaper editor
.
Born in
University of Durham's Armstrong College before joining the Newcastle Journal. He then moved to work for the News Chronicle, and in 1936 became a sub-editor on the Daily Mirror. Although he left in 1938 to rejoin the News Chronicle, he returned ten months later, and in 1948 became the newspaper's editor.[1]
As editor, Bolam focused on a strategy of
John George Haigh (later convicted of murder), he was jailed for three months for contempt of court.[2][3] By 1953, he had fallen out with the paper's editorial director and resigned. He died a few months later.[1]
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ISBN 0-330-39376-6.
- Daily Herald, 26 March 1949, p.3