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Robert Lumley Skelton
(4 October 1896 ? 11 August 1973) was a British newspaper editor.
Skelton grew up in
Newcastle upon Tyne
and attended
Rutherford College
. During
World War I
, he served in the
Durham Light Infantry
from 1914, but was seconded to the
Royal Flying Corps
as a pilot in 1918. After the war, he took up journalism, and became editor of the
Natal Witness
in 1928. Returning to the UK in 1933, he was appointed Managing Editor of the
Daily Telegraph
, serving until 1948, when he became editor of the
News of the World
. In later years, he served as chairman and managing director of Curzon-Grantham Advertising.
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