Alex MacDonald left Thailand after a military coup in the early 1950s, and the newspaper was later led by Roy, Lord Thomson.
It was created in 1964 for the Canadian newspaper magnate Roy Thomson.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894 – 1976), Canadian newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur.
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Roy Hendry Thomson (1932-2009), Knight of the Order of Saint John, and prominent citizen of Aberdeen, Scotland.
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The station was launched in late 1933 by young Northern Ontario media entrepreneur Roy Thomson, who would later become the owner of The Times of London.