Binney Lock
{{Short description|New Zealand newspaper editor}}
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| birth_name = Edmund Binney Lock
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|05|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|11|16|1932|05|21|df=y}}
| death_place = Christchurch, New Zealand
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| occupation = Journalist
| known_for = Editor of The Press (1978–90)
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Edmund Binney Lock {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=85%}} (21 May 1932 – 16 November 2014) was a New Zealand journalist, and editor of The Press newspaper in Christchurch from 1978 to 1990.
Biography
Born in 1932, Lock was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch from 1945 to 1949.{{cite web |url=http://www.ccoba.com/membership/search/recordview.php?id=2-1687 |title=Binney Lock |date= |website= |publisher=Christ's College Old Boys' Association |accessdate=22 November 2014}} He attended Canterbury University College, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1957.{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university14.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: L |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=22 November 2014}}
He joined The Press as a copyholder in 1951, later becoming a reporter. In the 1960s he worked in the parliamentary press gallery, and in 1972 he became assistant editor of The Press. He was editor from 1978 until his retirement in 1990.{{cite news | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/63265740/Former-Press-editor-was-the-ultimate-gentleman | title=Former Press editor was 'the ultimate gentleman' | date=17 November 2014 | work=The Press | accessdate=22 November 2014 | first=Tina | last=Law }}
In the 1990 New Year Honours, Lock was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to journalism.{{London Gazette |issue=51982 |date=30 December 1989 |page=30 |supp=2}}
Lock served as secretary of the Canterbury History Foundation from its establishment in 1999 until 2013.{{cite news | title=People-oriented history | date=1 April 1999 | work=The Press | page=37}}{{cite web |url=http://www.chf.org.nz/content/chairmans-report |title=Chairman's report |year=2013 |website= |publisher=Canterbury History Foundation |accessdate=22 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061731/http://www.chf.org.nz/content/chairmans-report |archive-date=29 November 2014 |url-status=dead }} He wrote a number of local histories, including: Medbury, 1923–1973: Story of a Family School (published 1973) and The Anglican Church in Oxford and Cust (1966).
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