Peter Dacre
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{{Infobox person
| name = Peter Dacre
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = 8 June 1925
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| death_date = 16 March 2003 (aged 77)
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| nationality = British
| education = Batley Grammar School
| occupation = Journalist
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| children = 5, including Paul Dacre
| relations = James Dacre (grandson)
Dai Jenkins (stepfather)
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Peter Dacre (8 June 1925 – 16 March 2003) was a journalist on the Sunday Express whose work included show business features.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1425528/Peter-Dacre.html|title=Peter Dacre|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 Mar 2003| accessdate = 11 June 2018}}Bill Hagerty [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2002/no3_hagerty2.htm "Paul Dacre: the zeal thing"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121224103629/http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2002/no3_hagerty2.htm |date=24 December 2012 }}, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002, pp. 11-22. Retrieved 25 May 2007. He was a former chairman of the London Press Club.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/peter-dacre-hd0h7lclwk3|title=Peter Dacre: Versatile journalist of the old school, with a flair for showbusiness | work = The Times | date = 19 March 2003 | access-date = 11 June 2018}} {{subscription required}}
Early life
Peter Dacre was born 8 June 1925 in Yorkshire, the son of a carpenter and joiner father who died in a building site accident when he was six. His mother later married the Welsh international rugby player Dai Jenkins. He was educated at Batley Grammar School.
Career
Dacre's first job was at the Doncaster Gazette, shortly after leaving school at the age of 16. According to Michael White in The Guardian, Dacre spent World War II writing show business journalism.{{cite news|last=White|first=Michael|url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/01/conservative-conference-miliband-mail-thatcher | title = Conservative conference diary: what were you doing on D-day? | work = The Guardian | date = 1 October 2013 }} His obituary in The Times reports him as writing for the News Review at the age of 19, and his obituary in The Daily Telegraph confirms that he worked on the News Review around that time. He worked with the Sunday Express for over forty years, and was the first English journalist to interview Elvis Presley.{{Cite book|last=Addison|first=Adrian|title=Mail Men: The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail|publisher=Atlantic Books|year=2017|isbn=978-1-78239-970-4|location=United Kingdom|pages=216}}
Personal life
Dacre was the father of the British journalists Nigel and Paul from his first marriage to Joan Hill. Later, in September 1979, Dacre married Ann Elizabeth Jarvis; both of his wives survived him.{{cite book|last=Addison|first=Adrian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DyB2DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT385|title=Mail Men: The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail - The Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain|location=London|publisher=Atlantic Books|year=2017|page=385|isbn=9781782399711}} (paperback edition)
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Category:British male journalists
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