Peter Dacre (8 June 1925 – 16 March 2003) was a journalist on the '' Sunday Express'' whose work included show business features.Bill Hagert
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, ''British Journalism Review'', Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002, pp. 11-22. Retrieved 25 May 2007. He was a former chairman of the

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Early life

Peter Dacre was born 8 June 1925 in Yorkshire, the son of a carpenter and joiner father who died in a building site accident when he was six. His mother later married the Welsh international rugby player Dai Jenkins. He was educated at

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Career

Dacre's first job was at the '' Doncaster Gazette'', shortly after leaving school at the age of 16. According to Michael White in ''The Guardian'', Dacre spent

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writing show business journalism. His obituary in ''The Times'' reports him as writing for the '' News Review'' at the age of 19, and his obituary in ''

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'' confirms that he worked on the ''News Review'' around that time. He worked with the '' Sunday Express'' for over forty years, and was the first English journalist to interview

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Personal life

Dacre was the father of the British journalists Nigel and

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from his first marriage to Joan Hill. Later, in September 1979, Dacre married Ann Elizabeth Jarvis; both of his wives survived him. (paperback edition)

References

1925 births 2003 deaths British male journalists

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