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Founded 1855. Owned since 1927 by the Berry family, who sold it to Conrad Black's Hollinger International in 1985. The paper was lost to the Barclay brothers in 2004.

Official Website:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Location:
London, England

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Barbara Amiel	Journalist	4-Dec-1940		Director of The Spectator
Conrad Black	Business	25-Aug-1944		Rapacious newspaper mogul
Winston S. Churchill	Politician	10-Oct-1940	2-Mar-2010	British MP, Manchester, 1970-97
Sebastian Coe	Track and Field	29-Sep-1956		Won 4 Olympic running medals
Stephen Fry	Actor	24-Aug-1957		Jeeves and Wooster
Basil Liddell Hart	Military	31-Oct-1895	29-Jan-1970	Military strategist
Max Hastings	Journalist	28-Dec-1945		Editor of the Daily Telegraph, 1986-95
Boris Johnson	Journalist	19-Jun-1964		Mayor of London
Stephen Jones	Biologist	24-Mar-1944		Geneticist and pop science writer
John Keegan	Historian	15-May-1934	2-Aug-2012	The Face of Battle
Philip Larkin	Poet	9-Aug-1922	2-Dec-1985	The Whitsun Weddings
James May	TV Personality	16-Jan-1963		Top Gear
Kim Philby	Spy	1-Jan-1912	11-May-1988	One of the Cambridge Five in MI6
Anthony Powell	Novelist	21-Dec-1905	28-Mar-2000	A Dance to the Music of Time
Ahmed Rashid	Author	8-Jun-1948		The Resurgence of Central Asia
Mark Steyn	Author	8-Dec-1959		America Alone
Ben Verwaayen	Business	11-Feb-1952		CEO of Alcatel-Lucent
Auberon Waugh	Columnist	17-Nov-1939	16-Jan-2001	Columnist for Private Eye

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