Information, free from interest or prejudice, free from the vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.
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| Birth: | 14th July, 1928 |
| Death: | 29th December, 2012 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Journalist, Public Servant |
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William Rees Mogg was born in Bristol, England in 1928 to an English Protestant father, Edmund Fletcher Rees Mogg, and an Irish American Roman Catholic mother, Beatrice. He was educated at Clifton College Preparatory School there and Charterhouse School in Godalming. He was head boy at Charterhouse and won a Brackenbury Scholarship in 1948 to read history at Balliol College, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1951.
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