Baroness Reuter, last link to news dynasty, dies

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Source: Reuters

Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:24pm GMT
By Mark Trevelyan

LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, a European aristocrat from a bygone age and last survivor of the family that founded the international news agency, died on Sunday aged 96, friends said.

... she was the widow of Oliver, 4th Baron de Reuter, whose grandfather Paul Julius Reuter established his news service in London in 1851 after starting out in Aachen, Germany, using telegraph cables and carrier pigeons.

The barony -- a German title granted to Paul Julius in 1871 but later confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England -- becomes extinct on her death, as she and her husband had no children ...


Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUKLP44889620090125

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1. I wonder if there's any link between that branch of the Reuters...

..and the ones that emigrated to Iowa in the mid 19th century.

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2. was she as right wing as Reuters news agency is?