Arthur Wareham (24 April 1908–10 May 1988Wareham, Arthur George
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. Wareham attended

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, then entered journalism with the ''

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''. In 1935 he moved to the ''

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'', rising to become editor in 1955.Mervyn O. Pragnell and Ann Patrick Rogers, ''The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who'' (1985) As editor, he reversed the drive of previous editor Guy Schofield to imitate ''

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'', instead taking the paper in a more populist direction. He was replaced as editor in 1959 and left the newspaper the following year to found a

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company, Arthur Wareham Associates Ltd.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wareham, Arthur 1908 births 1988 deaths British newspaper editors British public relations people People educated at Queen's College, Taunton British male journalists 20th-century British businesspeople