death_date death_place children birth_place name birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name
4 august 1976 london , england kenneth campbell roy thomson , irma thomson brydson , audrey toronto , canada the lord thomson of fleet 5 june 1894 successful newspaper and other media entrepreneur . roy thomson cropped.jpg roy thomson , 1st baron thomson of fleet
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roy thomson , 1st baron thomson of fleet

roy herbert thomson , 1st baron thomson of fleet , gbe -lrb- june 5 , 1894 -- august 4 , 1976 -rrb- was a canadian newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of fleet street .
he first came to prominence when he was selling radios in ontario , and to give his customers more programmes to listen , decided to launch his own radio station .
he then moved into newspapers , buying `` the scotsman '' as a salute to his early scottish ancestors , followed by the first scottish independent television channel .
by 1966 , he owned both `` the times '' and `` the sunday times '' .
