Hugh Greene and later with Lord Hill (played by Ron Cook) when he was Director General. Hugh Greene Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British journalist and television executive. He was Director-General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. He was the brother of Graham Greene, the English novelist. Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, one of the four sons and two daughters of Charles Henry Greene, Headmaster of Berkhamsted School. His brothers
Maurice Graham English Maurice Graham English Maurice Graham English was a World War I Irish aviator who was shot down by German flying ace Hans Goerth. Maurice English was the second son of John Graham English and his wife Ellen "Nellie" Jane English of Marlborough Street in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. A native of Derry, he was born in the second quarter of 1898 and attended Foyle College in the city of Derry. English was a member of the First Derry Presbyterian Church, and was with Brown's Engineering Works before he joined the service. During World War I, Maurice English initially served