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Brendan Bracken
Irish-born businessman and British politician (1901–1958)
Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958), was an Irish-born businessman, politician and a Minister of Information and First Lord of the Admiralty in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet.
He is best remembered for supporting Churchill during his whole political career.
A noted publisher and editor, he was also the founder of the modern version of the Financial Times[1] and of the monthly business magazine The Banker, as well as Managing Editor of The Economist.
He was Minister of Information from 1941 to 1945, managing the United Kingdom's propaganda efforts against Nazi Germany during the War.
Early life
Brendan Rendall Bracken was born in Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland, the second son and third of the four children of Joseph Kevin Bracken (1852–1904), builder and monumental mason, and his second wife, Hannah Agnes Ryan (1872–1928).
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