Cecil Harmsworth King (20 February 1901 – 17 April 1987) was owner of Mirror Group Newspapers, and later a Director at the Bank of England. February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trinity Mirror is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

He was the son of Sir Lucas White King, professor of oriental languages at Dublin University and his wife, Geraldine née Harmsworth, who was the sister of mass-circulation newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. Cecil was therefore brought up in an environment of wealth, privilege and effortless social connections. His school was Winchester College and from there he went on to Christ Church, Oxford. According to friend Colin Hannaford: "He believed he was born to rule, an image of himself which never departed."^{[citation needed]} Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe The Right Honourable Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner. ... Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868 - 1940) was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers. ... Winchester College is a boys public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... College name Christ Church Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister College Trinity College Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR President William Dorsey Undergraduates 426 MCR or GCR President {{{MCR President}}} Graduates 154 Home page Boat Club Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ...

In 1937 Cecil was an advertising director of one of his uncle's papers when he formed a partnership with journalist Hugh Cudlipp. When Cecil was made a senior director, he chose Cudlipp as his new editor. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hugh Kinsman Cudlipp (1913 - May 17, 1998), was a Welsh journalist. ...

At the age of 23 Cudlipp became the youngest chief editor in Fleet Street. Between them, King and Cudlipp turned The Daily Mirror into the world's largest selling daily newspaper. In 1967, the Daily Mirror's circulation reached a world record of 5,282,137 copies, and by 1963 King was chairman of the International Printing Corporation (IPC), then the biggest publishing empire in the world. His influence was enormous. He himself believed that criticism of Winston Churchill's government by the Mirror, had caused that government's collapse after the war.^{[citation needed]} Fleet Street road sign Fleet Street in 1890 Fleet Street in 2005 Fleet Street is a famous London street, named after the River Fleet. ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... This article is becoming very long. ...

King was connected to MI5 and would esssentially print anything they told him to. He also had connections to the British Mental Health establishment. He was later implicated in a plot to bring down Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Sources

• John Beavan, "King, Cecil Harmsworth (1901–1987)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 accessed 23 Aug 2006