Frank Thomas Robertson Giles was editor of the British Sunday Times newspaper from 1981-1983, having served as deputy editor under his predecessor Harold Evans.
Background
He is the son of Colonel Frank Lucas Netlam Giles Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (d 1930) and Elgiva Mary Ackland-Allen (1890-1970), who were married in 1916 in the bride"s home parish of Saint Hilary in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Career
He stood down in the wake of the Hitler Diaries scandal. The Ackland-Allen family of Saint Hilary Manor and Elgiva"s maternal ancestors, the Bearcrofts, are well documented in The Longcrofts: 500 Years of a British Family by James Phillips-Evans (2012). Frank married Lady Katherine Sackville ("Kitty") in 1946 and they had three children, the youngest of whom, Belinda, is married to television broadcaster David Dimbleby.