Sir Christopher John Howard Chancellor (29 March 1904 – 9 September 1989) was a British journalist and administrator who was general manager of the news agency

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from 1944 to 1959. ''

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'' credited him for keeping the company running under extremely difficult wartime circumstances, noting that "It was largely thanks to Chancellor that Reuters had survived the war intact, despite the loss for several years of the greatest part of its world market."via

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"Christopher Chancellor, Who Led Reuters for 15 Years, Dies at 85"
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'', 12 September 1989. Retrieved 12 January 2008. By 1951, at the firm's 100th anniversary, Chancellor was credited with tripling the agency's correspondents and revenues.

Biography

Chancellor was son of Lt. Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor (1870–1952), a colonial administrator. He was educated at

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and

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. Chancellor joined Reuters in 1930 and remained with the agency for 29 years. Based in Shanghai from 1931 to 1939 with his young family, he kept the agency's China service operating after the Japanese invasion in 1932. He returned to London during

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, and worked with William Moloney and William Haley in reorganising Reuters' news and business operations, succeeding Sir Roderic Jones as the general manager of Reuters in 1944. Chancellor was

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in the 1951 King's Birthday Honours List. He died at Wincanton, in southwest England, at age 85.

Family

In 1926, Chancellor married Sylvia Mary Paget (1901–1996), daughter of Sir Richard Paget. She was made OBE in 1976 for her philanthropic activities. Among their children were John Paget Chancellor (1927–2014), editor of the encyclopædia ''

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'',Obituary of John Chancellor, The Daily Telegraph 8 January 2015. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11333583/John-Chancellor-obituary.html and

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, editor of ''

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''. Their grandchildren include actresses

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and

Dolly Wells Dorothy Perpetua Wells (born Gatacre; 5 December 1971)Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, vol. III, 2003, pg 3046 is an English actress and writer. She co-wrote and starred in the Sky Living series ''Doll & Em'' (2014–2015) with Emily ...

, model

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, and financial historian

Edward Chancellor John "Edward" Horner Chancellor (born December 1962), is a British financial historian, finance journalist, and former investment strategist. In 2016, the ''Financial Analysts Journal'' called him "one of the great financial writers of our era", a ...

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