John Beavan, Baron Ardwick
John Cowburn Beavan, Baron Ardwick was a British journalist.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School. Beavan was reporter of the Manchester Evening News, becoming its editor in 1943. Between 1946 and 1955, he was London editor of The Guardian. For two years, 1960 to 1962, he was editor of the Daily Herald, then becoming political advisor to the Mirror Group, a post he retained until 1976. He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1979.
On 16 January 1970, he was created a life peer as Baron Ardwick, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
He married Gladys Jones in 1934 by whom he had two children.
By Anne Symonds, a BBC World Service journalist, he was also the father of Matthew Symonds. Symonds' daughter Carrie is the fiancé of the incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, a Conservative.Arms
