About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Mark Thompson, Aidan Crawley, Lew Grade, Peter Rice, David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, Thomas Brownrigg, Claudia Rosencrantz, Edmund Dell, Peter Bazalgette, Leon Hawthorne, Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, Mike Carlson, Bill Cotton, George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, Francis Coleman, Will Wyatt, Geoffrey Cox, Liz Forgan, Tony Ball, John Tusa, Richard Digance, John Sachs, Alison Sharman, Vanni Treves, David Docherty, Naomi Sargant, Chris Parr, William Haley, Ronnie Waldman, Darren Childs, Jane Lush, George Barnes, Michael Carrington, Nigel Pickard, Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick, Val Parnell, Heather Rabbatts, Kevin Lygo, Martin J. O'Connor, Stuart Prebble, Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, Amanda Ross, Richard Klein, Carolyn Fairbairn, Jon Thoday, Mike Hollingsworth, Prince Littler, Sue Tinson, Peter Orton. Excerpt: Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE (10 April 1908 Benenden, Kent - 3 November 1993 Banbury, Oxfordshire) was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician. He was a member of both of Britain's major political parties: the Labour Party and Conservative Party, and was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour MP from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative MP from 1962 to 1967. Crawley was educated at Harrow School, a famous independent school in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London, followed by Trinity College at the University of Oxford in Oxford. He played cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club and Kent. The bulk of Crawley's career was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, but he played a few first-class games after the Second World War, while a sitting MP. He was also a prisoner of war. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Buckingham from 1945 to 1951, when he lost to the Conservative candidate Frank Markham, himself an ex-Labour MP...
