The Old Gent of D'olier St ; an Ex-Army Man Who Was Both Eccentric and Haughty, the Major Left His Indelible Mark On One of Two Great Loves... The Irish Times [Eire Region]

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TO HIS staff he was always 'the Major'. He looked the part - the epitome of an Edwardian Anglo-Irish gentleman, a monoclewearing ex- army man of upright bearing and character who wore only three-piece suits and removed a fob watch from the waistcoat pocket when he needed the time.

But while Major Thomas Bleakley McDowell's origins were much humbler than the image he created for himself might have suggested, they proved no impediment to his ascension to one of the most exalted thrones in journalism, as chairman and chief executive of the Irish Times for four decades.

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The Old Gent of D'olier St ; an Ex-Army Man Who Was Both Eccentric and Haughty, the Major Left His Indelible Mark On One of Two Great Loves... The Irish Times [Eire Region]

His death on Wednesday at the age of 85 brought to an end an extraordinary era in the history of the Old Lady of D'Olier Street, years in which its circulation quadrupled, its reputation for quality writing and comment was enhanced and its self-appointed custodianship of the truth, as the so-called paper of record, dominated its agenda at the cost of inclusi...

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