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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Roy Greenslade

Thomson, the art-collecting media mogul

Kenneth Thomson, the former chairman of media conglomerate, Thomson Corporation, died yesterday aged 82. Regarded as Canada's wealthiest man, he was noted more as an art collector than as a media mogul. He inherited a newspaper and radio empire from his buccaneering father, Roy, which included The Times in Britain. He sold it in 1981 to Rupert Murdoch and later sold off a substantial chain of British regional papers. Geoffrey Goodman's obituary sums him up well. (Via theglobeandmail.com)

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