The Independent - London, September 3rd, 1998
LORD ROTHERMERE, chairman of Associated Newspapers and scion of the last great press dynasty, died of a heart attack in London late on Monday at the age of 73, just three months after the death of Sir David English, editor-in-chief of Associated's Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard. The newspaper group is now in the hands of 30-year-old Jonathan Harmsworth, Rother- mere's son. Vere Harold Esmond Harms- worth, third Viscount Rothermere was the great nephew of Lord Northcliffe, founder of the dynasty and the model for press barons to come. Yesterday the Prime Minister, Tony Blair...
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