Larry Lamb (newspaper editor)

Larry Lamb, real name: Sir Albert Lamb ( born July 15, 1929 † 19 May 2000) was a British newspaper editor. He was from 1969 to 1972 and from 1975 to 1981 editor of the Sun, and from 1983 to 1986 at the Daily Express. Lamb was raised in 1980 at the instigation of Margaret Thatcher in the peerage. Thatcher's electoral success has been influenced by the reporting of the Sun over the labor dispute under the previous Labour Government.

Lamb was editor of the Daily Mail since 1968 in Manchester, before Rupert Murdoch (News Corporation) hiring away him for the re- launched Sun. He led a populist style of the Sun and used the term public appeal Winter of Discontent (winter of discontent from the play Richard III. W. Shakespeare) for the series of strikes during the winter of 1978/1979.

He was since 1979 Vice Chairman of News Group Newspapers Ltd.. , 1981 mail was transferred to the Western Australia, and edited since 1982 The Australia. In 1983 he left the newsgroup and moved to the Daily Express. After retiring in 1986 he founded his own public relations agency, Larry Lamb Associates.

His nickname was inspired by the figure of Larry the Lamb from the Childrens Hour, a former radio broadcast by the BBC for children.

• Born in 1929
• Died in 2000
• Man
• Journalist (United Kingdom)
• English
• Newspaper journalist
• Knight Bachelor
• Briton