Percy Cudlipp
(1905-1962), JournalistSitter in 13 portraits
Cudlipp left school in 1918 at the age of thirteen so that he could start working on the South Wales Echo. After a year in Manchester reporting for the Evening Chronicle he moved in 1925 to London as drama critic and humorous columnist on the Sunday News. By the age of twenty-seven, in 1933, Cudlipp was appointed editor of the Standard; the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper. In 1938 he joined the Daily Herald as editorial manager and became its editor two years later; a post he retained until 1953. In 1956 he became the founder editor of the New Scientist. His two brothers, Hugh and Reginald, also became editors of national newspapers.
Percy Cudlipp; Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine; A. Zinchenko
by Jack Esten, for Daily Herald
bromide press print, 4 October 1943
NPG x184284
after Sir David Low
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 25 June 1949
NPG D43338
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