NEWSPAPER MAGNATE

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26854, 6 October 1952, Page 7

NEWSPAPER MAGNATE

Death Of Sir Keith Murdoch

(Rec. 9 fl-np.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 5. Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, a leading figure in the Australian newspaper world, has died at his home at Frankfton. near Melbourne. Chairman of directors of the Herald and Weekly Times. Ltd., since 1942, Sir Keith Murdoch was also managing director of the Melbourne “Herald, ’ “Sun News-Pictorial" and Associated publications until 1949, and 4 director of Australian Newsprint Mills ProSiary, Ltd . the Adelaide ”Adver- ’’ and “News.” and the Brisbane

Jie was also president of trustees •f the National Gallery. Victoria, and a vice-president of the Empire Art Council. He was Director-General of Information from June to December,

IMO. president of the Victorian sectio: c the Australian-American Associa ton irom 1941 *o 1946, visiting presi cent of the Australian section of th Lmpire Press Union, and president o the TOwn tnd~ Country Planning As location.

Sir Keith Murdoch was born in Melbourne ,in August. 1886. He was educated at a grammar school in the neighbouring town of Camberwell. He was a son of the Rev. P- J- Murdoch, who had left Aberdeenshire ty become a Presbyterian minister at Camberwell. His mother was also Scottish. Starting his career in journalism as a reporter on the Melbourne “Age.” Sir Keith Murdoch was appointed a war correspondent for the Gallipoli campaign, with a specie' mission to watch events on behalf of the Australian Government. He carried out the task with credit, and afterwards aide a report on the campaign to the British Government. When he was in London he took I course at the School of Economics. After being editor and manager of the United Cable Service, he reprelented Australian newspapers and “The Times” on the Prince of Wales’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in In 1933 Sir Keith Murdoch was knighted for his public services to Australia.