Richard Dimbleby CBE (25 May 1913 – 22 December 1965) was an English journalist and broadcaster widely acknowledged as one of the greatest figures in British broadcasting history.
Frederick Richard Dimbleby was born near Richmond , in the western suburbs of London, the son of Gwendoline Mabel (Bolwell) and Frederick Jabez George Dimbleby, a journalist. He was educated at the independent Mill Hill School in North London. He did not go to universit...
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Richard Dimbleby CBE (25 May 1913 – 22 December 1965) was an English journalist and broadcaster widely acknowledged as one of the greatest figures in British broadcasting history.
Frederick Richard Dimbleby was born near Richmond , in the western suburbs of London, the son of Gwendoline Mabel (Bolwell) and Frederick Jabez George Dimbleby, a journalist. He was educated at the independent Mill Hill School in North London. He did not go to university. His great grandfather Jabez Bunting (J.B.) Dimbleby, born in Beverley, Yorkshire, was the first of the Dimbleby family to become involved in journalism. He was editor of the journal All Past Time "A journal devoted to the application of Astronomy to the measurement of time" and was described as the premier chronologist to the "British Chronological and Astronomical Association". He wrote a number of works on chronology, including The Appointed Time (translated into Swedish and Norwegian), and the anti-darwinian "The Bible’s Astronomical...
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