Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsAppendiCesAppendix XVIIbOxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry for Tom ClarkeBy Fred HunterClarke, Thomas (1884-1957), journalist and broadcaster, was born at 39 HighStreet, Bolton, on 6 June 1884, the youngest child of five sons and three daughtersof Joseph Clarke, a Lancashire-born Irish cotton spinner, and later an insurancesalesman, and his wife, Martha Marsh, a Baptist. Clarke attended Clarence Streethigher grade school, forerunner of Bolton grammar school, and contributed toBolton’s newspaper, the Northern Weekly. Encouraged by his mother and by hiseldest brother, the journalist Charles Allen Clarke (1863-1935), he applied toRuskin Hall where he won a scholarship, going up to Oxford in May 1902, justbefore his eighteenth birthday. At Ruskin, Dennis Hird guided and inspired hisintellectual zest. Following his study in Oxford, he worked on the LewishamJournal, at £1 a week, where his editor, Frederick George Kellaway, remarkedthat, after a year, Clarke had learned all he needed to know of journalism and urgedhim to travel abroad.So at the age of nineteen Clarke went in 1903 to Hong Kong to work on theSouth China Morning Post, and found himself involved in some world shakingevents in the Far East. He served as correspondent for the Daily Mail and theChicago Tribune in French Indo-China and, at the end of the Russo-Japanese War,visited China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, including Siberia. On his return to Londonthe Daily Mail informed him that living in the Far East had put him out of touchwith events in Britain and Europe and he retreated to Manchester where HenryMarriott Richardson, literary editor of the Manchester Evening Chronicle (latergeneral secretary of the National Union of Journalists), offered him a post at £2 5s.a week. A story about a flying meeting at Blackpool resulted in James Heddle,editor of the Daily Sketch (established in 1908 and printed in Manchester), offeringhim the position of London news editor at £5 a week. This was 1909 and on 1 June1910 Clarke married his first wife, Elizabeth Naylor Waddington (1887/8-1957),the only daughter of Richard Waddington JP, schoolmaster and educationalpublisher, of Bolton.In 1911 Clarke joined the foreign news desk of the Daily Mail, serving as nightnews editor from 1914 until December 1916, when he joined the army, where ’as asignals officer in the Army I ... developed a keen personal interest in wireless’broadcasting (Clarke, My Northcliffe Diary). He rejoined the Mail in 1919 whenAlfred, Viscount Northcliffe appointed him news editor of the Mail, anddispatched him on a tour of the United States and Canada to study newspaperproduction. He relished foreign travel, visiting Northcliffe in various Europeanresorts frequented by the wealthy and famous, and became an ardent skiingenthusiast.Clarke kept a diary and studied Northcliffe’s methods and character, and laterpublished two books on him which reveal much about Northcliffe’s working248MOD100051419