Walter George Fish known as W. G. Fish, was a British

British people

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 newspaper editor.

Born in Accrington

Accrington

Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn...

, Fish studied at Westminster City School

Westminster City School

Westminster City School is a voluntary aided Christian school for boys in Westminster, London. The school has 800 students on its roll, and it offers 105 of 130 places each year to boys practising the Christian faith in the Anglican dioceses of London and Southwark. The other 25 spaces are...

 before entering journalism. He joined the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

in 1904, and was promoted to news editor in 1906, quickly gaining attention by providing the first reports of Dr Crippen's arrest in Canada. During World War I

World War I

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, he worked for the Board of Trade

Board of Trade

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, organising publicity for coal mining

Coal mining

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. He was promoted to become editor of the Mail in 1919. In 1922, he planned to sue the newspaper's owner, Lord Northcliffe, for libel, but was dissuaded and ultimately served until 1930. He spend his retirement as a director of the Mail, and during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 he advised the Ministry of Information and the Press and Censorship Bureau.

Fish's second wife Margery was a well-known gardener.