Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere
The Viscount Rothermere | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 12 July 1978 – 1 September 1998 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere |
Succeeded by | Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 April 1925 |
Died | 1 September 1998 | (aged 73)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour (1997-1998) |
Spouse(s) | Patricia Evelyn Beverley Matthews (1957–1992) Maiko Jeong Shun Lee (1993–1998) |
Children | Geraldine Theodora Gabriel Harmsworth Camilla Patricia Caroline Harmsworth Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere |
Parent(s) | The 2nd Viscount Rothermere Margaret Hunam Redhead |
Education | Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England Kent School, Kent, Connecticut, United States |
Occupation | Publisher |
Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere (27 April 1925 – 1 September 1998), known as Vere Harmsworth until 1978, was a British newspaper magnate. He controlled large media interests in the United Kingdom and United States.
Early life
Rothermere was born in 1925, third child and only son born to
After his marriage he lived much of the year in France, only partly for tax reasons.[2]
Business life
Rothermere became the Chairman of
English succeeded him as chairman of Associated Newspapers (but not of ANH or of the parent companies) in 1992. When English died in mid-1998, Rothermere resumed the chairmanship of Associated Newspapers and replaced his protégé as president of the Commonwealth Press Union, only to die himself some months later, still chairman of DMGT, after being fatally stricken with a heart attack while dining with his son (and successor) Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.
Harmsworth was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, which he helped establish alongside his sister Lady Cromer and Vyvyan Harmsworth.
Harmsworth's newspapers supported the Thatcher government, but following Tony Blair's landslide general election victory he defected to the Labour Party.[5]
Family life
On 21 March 1957 Rothermere married actress Patricia Brooks.[6] They had three children:
- Geraldine Theodora Gabriel Harmsworth (born 25 July 1957)
- Camilla Patricia Caroline Harmsworth (born 28 July 1964)
- Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (born 3 December 1967)
Following the death of his first wife on 12 August 1992, Rothermere married his longtime girlfriend, Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, in 1993.[7]
References
- ISBN 0-905649-38-9.
- ^ a b c d e Leapman, Michael (3 September 1998). "Obituary: Viscount Rothermere". The Independent.
- ^ a b Lyall, Sarah (3 September 1998). "Lord Rothermere, Press Giant, Is Dead at 73". The New York Times.
- ^ "A who's who of Britain's legal offshore tax avoidance". The Guardian. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Lord Rothermere". BBC News. 2 September 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- ^ "Obituary: Viscount Rothermere". The Independent. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Lyall, Sarah (3 September 1998). "Lord Rothermere, Press Giant, Is Dead at 73". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
Further reading
- Coleridge, Nicholas (March 1994). Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons. Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press. ISBN 9781559722155.