DEATH OCCURS AT SEA
EDITOR OF THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON. Feb. 29. Mr R. M. Barrington-Ward, editor of The Times, died to-day on board the ship Llangibb Castle, says Reuter's correspondent at Dar-es-Salaam (Tanganyika). He was returning to London after a health trip t.o Kenya. Mr Barrington-Ward had been editor of The Times since 1941. He was educated at Westminster and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A., and later became a barrister-at-law. In 1913 he was editorial secretary to The Times. Serving in the First World War with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, he won the D.S.O. and the M.C.—as well as being mentioned three times in despatches. From 1919 to 1927 he was assistant editor of the Observer, and assistant editor of The Times from 1927 to 1941.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26709, 2 March 1948, Page 5
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