George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell

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George Allardice Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell (25 May 1865—5 December 1934) was a British newspaper proprietor.

Riddell was born in Brixton Heath, London, the son of a photographer. He became a clerk in a solicitor's office, and qualified as a solicitor himself in 1888, being placed first in all of England in his final exams. He later abandoned the law, however, and went into the newspaper business. By 1903 he was managing director of the News of the World and also owned other newspapers. A close friend and ally of David Lloyd George, he was knighted in 1909. During the First World War, he liaised between the government and the press and represented the British press barons at the Versailles Peace Conference and later peace conferences. For these services he was created a baronet in 1918 and a baron in the 1920 New Year Honours.^[1]

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• Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Obituary, The Times, 6 December 1934