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

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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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