Former Evening Standard deputy editor Peter Boyer has died after a long illness.
Boyer headed the daily editorial production operation from the mid-Eighties to the end of the Nineties, working with four editors: John Leese, Paul Dacre, Stewart Steven and Max Hastings.
Before joining the Evening Standard, he worked at the Evening News and was sports editor of The Sun.
Mr Dacre, editor-in-chief and chairman of Associated Newspapers, said: “Peter Boyer was the consummate newspaper production man.
"A tough but fair leader of men, he presided over the Standard’s backbench in the days when there were five editions with authority, flair, lightning decisiveness and an extraordinary equilibrium. The greater the pressure, the calmer he became. He was a giant of our trade.”
He leaves a widow, Delphine, daughters Claire and Eve and three grandchildren.
Boyer was 80.
