John Cowburn Beavan, Baron Ardwick (29 April 1910 – 18 August 1994) was a British journalist.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School.[1] Beavan was reporter of the Manchester Evening News, becoming its editor in 1943. Between 1946 and 1955, he was London editor of The Guardian.[2] For two years, 1960 to 1962, he was editor of the Daily Herald, then becoming political advisor to the Mirror Group, a post he retained until 1976.[3] He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1979.[2]
On 16 January 1970, he was created a life peer as Baron Ardwick of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.[4]
He married Gladys Jones in 1934 by whom he had two children.
By Anne Symonds, a BBC World Service journalist, he was also the father of Matthew Symonds.[5] Symonds' daughter Carrie is the fiancée of the incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, a Conservative.[6]
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- ^ 2007 "Ardwick, Baron cr 1970 (Life Peer), of Barnes, (John Cowburn Beavan) (29 April 1910–18 Aug. 1994)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 26 Jul. 2019
- ^ a b Terence Lancaster Obituary: Lord Ardwick, The Independent, 19 August 1994
- ^ Dennis Griffiths (ed) The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992, London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p,97
- ^ "No. 45021". The London Gazette. 16 January 1970. p. 658.
- ^ 2018 "Symonds, Matthew John, (born 20 Dec. 1953), Executive Director, Lawrence Ellison Foundation, since 2018." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 26 Jul. 2019
- ^ ITV Report, Carrie Symonds: Who is Boris Johnson's partner? at itv.com dated 22 June 2019, accessed 24 June 2019
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| Preceded by Douglas Machray | Editor of the Daily Herald 1960–1962 | Succeeded by Sydney Jacobson |