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.

From the guide to the Correspondence with Felix Frankfurter, 1952-1965, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)