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.
Roy Rogers | Roy Orbison | Fleet Air Arm | Baron | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Roy Lichtenstein | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Fleet Street | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Roy Thomas | Roy Haynes | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Roy Clark | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | baron | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | United States Pacific Fleet | Sacha Baron Cohen | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Arundhati Roy | Thomson Reuters | Thomson | Roy Jenkins |
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.
Roy Hendry Thomson (1932-2009), Knight of the Order of Saint John, and prominent citizen of Aberdeen, Scotland.