Jr Mogg

[sandyRoe]

Was his father a political figure?

[sandyRoe]

Google tells me he was one of the great and the good, editor of The Times, chairman of The Arts Council and vice chairman of the BBC.

[goodgoalie]

As editor he wrote the famous 'who breaks a butterfly on a wheel' leader in the Times, re the Stones' drugs arrests in the 60s

[Mamyalynne]

He did dabble in politics a little.

//Rees-Mogg began his career in journalism in London at The Financial Times in 1952 becoming chief leader writer in 1955 and, in addition, assistant editor in 1957. During this period, he was Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of Chester-le-Street in a by-election on 27 September 1956, losing to the Labour candidate Norman Pentland by 21,287 votes, as he did in the subsequent general election by a similar margin.//

[sandyRoe]

I remembered the name from way back but not much more than that. The butterfly on a wheel editorial makes me think he must have been a man of innate decency.

[jourdain2]

William Rees-Mogg, I think. Active about the time we joined the EEC and, I think, he campaigned against Maastricht.