Laurence Marks (26 January 1928 – 25 May 1996) was a British

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who wrote for many years for ''

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'' and previously for ''

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''. Marks read law at Lincoln College, Oxford, and began his career on ''

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''. He moved on to the ''

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'' (where he edited 'Londoner's Diary') and then ''The Sunday Times''. He left ''The Sunday Times'' after the paper was accused of being in contempt of court in December 1967 over a caption for a photograph of

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. Marks, who had written the caption, resigned in protest at what he regarded as a failure of support by the paper and in particular the editor

Harold Evans Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 192823 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of ''The Sunday Times'' from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title ''The Times'' for a year f ...

.Donald Trelford on the Press, Independent on Sunday, 26 May 2008.
Retrieved on 22 May 2009. Marks joined ''The Observer'' and stayed for over 25 years before contributing to ''

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'' in his final years.

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Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford British male journalists The Sunday Times people 1928 births 1996 deaths {{UK-journalist-stub