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Cecil Harmsworth King was born on 20 February, 1901 in Poynters Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England, is a British publisher. Discover Cecil Harmsworth King's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Publisher
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February, 1901
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Poynters Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England
Date of death 17 April, 1987
Died Place Dublin, Ireland
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Who Is Cecil Harmsworth King's Wife?

His wife is Agnes Margaret Cooke (m. 1923-1958) Dame Ruth Railton (m. 1962)

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Parents Sir Lucas White King Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth
Wife Agnes Margaret Cooke (m. 1923-1958) Dame Ruth Railton (m. 1962)
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Children 4

Cecil Harmsworth King Net Worth

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1901

Cecil Harmsworth King (20 February 1901 – 17 April 1987) was Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers and the International Publishing Corporation (1963–1968), and a director at the Bank of England (1965–1968).

Cecil Harmsworth King was born on 20 February 1901 at Poynters Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, the home of his grandmother, Geraldine Mary Harmsworth.

He came on his father's side from a Protestant Irish family, and was brought up in Ireland.

His father was Sir Lucas White King, Professor of Oriental Languages at Trinity College, Dublin, and his mother was Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton (née Harmsworth), daughter of Alfred Harmsworth, a barrister, and sister of the mass-circulation newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.

The fourth child in a family of three sons and three daughters, he was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford.

According to Geoffrey Goodman: "He believed he was born to rule, an image of himself which never departed."

1923

He married firstly Agnes Margaret Cooke, daughter of Canon George Albert Cooke and Frances Helen Anderson, in 1923.

They had four children: Michael, Francis, Priscilla and Colin.

He and Agnes Margaret Cooke were divorced.

1937

In 1937, he was an advertising director of one of his uncle's newspapers when he formed a partnership with journalist Hugh Cudlipp.

When he was made a senior director, he chose Cudlipp as his new editor.

At the age of 23, Cudlipp became the youngest chief editor in Fleet Street.

Between them, both men turned the Daily Mirror into the world's largest selling daily paper.

1962

He married secondly Ruth Railton in 1962, founder of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, daughter of Rev David Railton and Ruby Marion Wilson.

1963

By 1963 King was chairman of the International Publishing Corporation (IPC), then the biggest publishing empire in the world, which included the Daily Mirror and some two hundred other papers and magazines (1963–1968).

His influence in British public life was enormous.

He himself believed that criticism of Winston Churchill's government by the Mirror had caused that government's collapse after the war.

1967

In 1967, the Daily Mirror reached a world record circulation of 5,282,137 copies.

1968

King was involved in, and may have instigated, a 1968 meeting with Louis Mountbatten, among others, in which he proposed that Harold Wilson's government be overthrown and replaced with a temporary administration headed by Mountbatten.

He decided to override the editorial independence of the Mirror and wrote and instructed to be published a front-page article calling on Wilson to be removed by some sort of extra-parliamentary action.

The board of IPC met and demanded his resignation for this breach of procedure and for damaging the interests of IPC as a public company.

He refused, and was dismissed by the board on 30 May, leaving command to his deputy, Hugh Cudlipp, who later expanded IPC's business in the United States.

1974

In 1974, King moved from London to Dublin with his second wife.

He died at his Dublin home, The Pavilion, 23 Greenfield Park, Donnybrook, following a long illness.

He was survived by Dame Ruth as well as two children from his first marriage, his sons Michael and Colin having predeceased him.

He appears in Netflix's The Crown in episode five of season 3 ("Coup"), portrayed by actor Rupert Vansittart.