Christopher Chancellor

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 Reuters from 1944 to 1959. The Daily Telegraph 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." 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 Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. 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 World War II, 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 knighted in the 1951 King's Birthday Honours List. He died at Wincanton, in southwest England, at age 85.