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Bernard Ingham

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Gender Male
Age 91
Date of birth June 21,1932
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Hebden Bridge
United Kingdom
Job Civil servant
Journalist
Education Calder High School
University of Bradford
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Sir Bernard Ingham is a British journalist and former civil servant, best known as Margaret Thatcher's long-serving chief press secretary while she was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. He was knighted in Thatcher's 1990 resignation honours list.

Bernard Ingham: Margaret Thatcher's press chief dies aged 90

Feb 16,2020 7:10 am

Sir Bernard Ingham , the long-standing press secretary to Margaret Thatcher , has died after a short illness, His Family said.

Revered for his simple and straight-talking approach, Sir Bernard also served as press secretary to Labour MP Tony Benn .

The former journalist, who was 90, died with His Family around him on Friday lunchtime, a statement said.

His son John said: " My Family will miss him greatly. "

" To the wider world he is known as Margaret Thatcher 's chief press secretary, a formidable operator in the political and Whitehall jungles.

" But to me he was my Dad - and a great Dad at that. He was a fellow football fan and an adoring grandfather and great grandfather. "

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