W. F. Deedes is the only person ever to have been both a cabinet minister and a national newspaper editor. He was a minister in Harold Macmillan's administration and later became editor of the Daily Telegraph. He is author of Dear Bill: A Memoir, At War with Waugh: The Real Story of Scoop and Brief Lives, a collection of short biographies, and wrote for the Telegraph for seventy-five years. He died in August 2007.