PACIFIC CABLE BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 102, 21 July 1927, Page 3

PACIFIC CABLE BOARD

NEW CHAIRMAN APPOINTED SIR CAMPBELL STUART By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. The Canadian representative on the Pacific Cable Board, Sir Campbell Stuart, has been appointed the first chairman of the board under the new constitution. —Sun. Sir Campbell Stuart is a director of “The Times’’ publishing Company. He was born at Montreal on July 5, 1885, and was educated at private schools. He represented the headquarters staff of the Canadian Army on the occasion of the visit to Ireland of the Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish-Canadian Rangers in January, 1917, which battalion he recruited in the province of Quebec for service in the Great War. He was assistant military attache, British Embassy, Washington, March, 1917, vice-chairman of the London headquarters of the British War Mission to the United States, January, 1918, deputy-director of propaganda in enemy countries, 1919-24. Sir Campbell was managing director of “The Times,” 1919-24, and managingeditor of the “Daily Mail,” 1919-22. He is a governor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, chairman of the executive committee of the Canadian History Society, a member of the council of the Empire Press Union, and of the council of the Royal Colonial Institute, a member of the executive committee of the Overseas League, vicepresident of the English-Speaking Union, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.