Haley, William, Sir

Haley was born in 1901, on the island of Jersey . After working on the staffs of several newspapers and at Reuters , he become the head of the BBC in 1944, a position he held until 1952. He was then editor of the London Times from 1952-1966 and editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1968-1969. He died in 1987 in Jersey. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1882, and immigrated with his parents to New York in 1894. A lifelong Anglophile, Frankfurter was educated at Harvard and was eventually nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939, where he served until his retirement in 1962. He died in 1965.