Mark Barrington-Ward

Mark Barrington-Ward
Born(1927-10-25)25 October 1927[1]
Died23 October 2021(2021-10-23) (aged 93)
NationalityBritish
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford[2]
OccupationJournalist
Known forNewspaper editor
Spouse(s)Catherine Barrington-Ward
(died 2012)
RelativesRobert McGowan Barrington-Ward (father),
Simon Barrington-Ward (brother)

Mark Barrington-Ward (25 October 1927 – 23 October 2021) was a British newspaper editor. He also served as the President of The Uganda Society between 1957 and 1958

Life

Barrington-Ward was the son of Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward (1891–1948), who served with distinction in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and was editor of The Times 1941–48.[3]

Like his father, Barrington-Ward studied at Balliol College, Oxford (reading modern history 1948–51), served in the DCLI and became a newspaper editor.[2]

He died on 23 October 2021 at the age of 93. He had four children and eight grandchildren.[4]

Newspaper career

Barrington-Ward began in journalism as a trainee on the Manchester Guardian in 1951.[2] In 1955 he became the founding editor of the Uganda Argus.[2] In 1960 he joined the Westminster Press in England.[2] With the Westminster Press he was editor of the Northern Echo 1960–61, editor of the Oxford Mail 1961–79[5] and London Editor from 1979 until his retirement in 1992.[2]

Oxford

Barrington-Ward continued to live in Oxford after editing the Oxford Mail.[2] From 2004 to 2010 he was President of Oxford Civic Society.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Mark Barrington-Ward obituary
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Barrington-Ward 2010, p. rear cover.
  3. ^ Dalyell, Tam (18 March 2010). "Geoffrey Woolley: 'Times' Letters Editor whose pages helped set Britain's public agenda". The Independent. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  4. ^ Barrington-Ward
  5. ^ "Last principal of tutorial college". The Oxford Times. 23 February 2012.

Sources

  • Barrington-Ward, Mark (2010). Forty Years of Oxford Planning: What has it achieved, and what next?. Oxford: Oxford Civic Society. pp. author's biography on rear cover.